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“Let’s end the suspense right away: All three are fine,” said in The New York Times . Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, and James Corden headline the new Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s 1994 play about a friendship that implodes after one of the three male pals pays $300,000 for a minimalist all-white painting. Harris and Cannavale, whose lines should draw the most blood, “can come off as guarded, as if they’re fencing with blunted tips.” But Corden “makes a meal” of his big moments, and Reza’s 31-year-old drama proves “a lot more interesting than a mere star vehicle.” Today, after all, people are even more inclined to define themselves by their tastes and purchases.

Art “satirizes the vapidity and pettiness of the upper-middle class,” but “I can’t laugh at it anymore,”

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