Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris will return to Broadway this fall within the first-ever Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning Artwork by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton.
Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis (Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Take Me Out) will direct, with previews to start at Broadway’s Music Field Theatre on Thursday, August 28, with an official opening evening on Tuesday, September 16. The manufacturing will play a restricted 17-week engagement by December 21.
The announcement was made immediately by producers Sand & Snow Leisure (Michael Shulman), ATG Productions and Gavin Kalin Productions.
“On behalf of my companions Adam Speers, Gavin Kalin, and myself, we’re thrilled to be producing the first-ever Broadway revival of this iconic Tony-Award successful play with three iconic, award-winning actors, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris, underneath the helm of the legendary Scott Ellis,” mentioned producer Michael Shulman. “Ever since I first noticed the unique manufacturing, it has been etched into my thoughts as a hysterical and shifting portrayal of friendship, compromise, and the ability of artwork to alter views.”
Reza’s play premiered in 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris, with English-language variations debuting in London in 1996 and on Broadway in 1998. The Broadway manufacturing starred Alan Alda, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina.
The comedy follows three longtime buddies and what occurs when one makes an extravagant buy of a totally white portray, resulting in intense disagreements over what constitutes artwork. Ego and cash come into play, after all.
Cannavale, who will play the character Marc, final appeared on Broadway in 2018’s The Lifespan of a Reality. Amongst his 5 Broadway appearances are Tony-nominated performances in 2009’s Mauritius and 2011’s The Motherf*cker With The Hat. TV and movie credit embody Boardwalk Empire, The Watcher and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.
Corden, who will play Yvan, made his Broadway debut in 2006’s The Historical past Boys, and gained a Tony Award for One Man, Two Guvnors in 2012. Corden hosted CBS’ The Late Late Present with James Corden from 2015 to 2023.
Harris, solid because the art-buying Serge, made his Broadway debut in 2003 in Cabaret, returning 4 occasions together with Hedwig and the Offended Inch, for which he gained a Tony in 2014. Harris is a five-time Emmy Award-winner greatest identified to TV audiences for How I Met Your Mom.
The design crew for Artwork shall be introduced at a later date.
