Art at Lyric Stage Boston

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Lyric Stage Boston
140 Clarendon Street Boston

Serge has purchased a modern painting for an outrageous sum. Marc hates it. Yvan is stuck in the middle. When superficial ideals and values that they once joked about appear to be at the core of Serge’s intentions, comradery is quickly replaced by a sense of betrayal. This sophisticated comedy of manners forces three best friends to examine just how well they really know each other. With sleek repartee and mounting friction, their evening together intensifies to the point of no return where loneliness could be the cost of their inability to save their friendship instead of their egos.

Thru - Mar 16, 2025

Show Type: Comedy

Box Office: 617-585-5678

www.lyricstage.com

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The Boston Globe - Highly Recommended

"...The new Lyric Stage production, which runs through March 16, is directed by Courtney O’Connor with surgical precision, striking a delicate balance between comedy and pathos. That whiplash is critical to the success of this play about friendships tested by a disagreement around artistic taste. Three men find their 15-year friendship thrown into turmoil when one pays a staggering sum for a painting the others dismiss as worthless."

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- Terry Byrne

Joyce's Choices - Highly Recommended

"...I loved LYRIC STAGE COMPANY's production of ART by Yasmina Reza starring a marvelous troika of veteran Boston stars who know just how to massage this three-way friendship into a roiling dramedy triggered by a piece of art. It all starts in Paris when Serge (a cool Michael Kaye who has trouble seeing his bougie tendencies) pays 200,000 francs for a "modern" painting consisting of a white canvas with white diagonal lines. Marc (a hilariously enraged John Kuntz) is incensed that his friend has paid an inflated price for a painting with no artistic heft."

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- Joyce Kulhawik

Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...Directed by Courtney O'Connor, it's a play that leans heavily on script, and it's a script that relies on the ability of the actors to milk lines like "Read Seneca!" for all their emotional potential-such a line might be offered in a tone of enthusiasm, arrogance, and eventually comedy."

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- Lynne Weiss

New England Theater Mirror - Highly Recommended

"...Airaldi imbues Yvan with the kind of heart, humor and self-acceptance reminiscent of Jonathan Winters at his best. Kaye's Serge is nuanced; he's snooty and disdainful one minute yet insecure and lonely the next. As Marc, Kuntz has the difficult job of hiding his fears and vulnerabilities beneath a frosty veneer of supercilious superiority and furious frankness. All three actors give flawless performances, the kind that make 90 intermission-less minutes fly by."

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- Shelley A. Sackett

METR Mag - Highly Recommended

"...Kuntz is marvelous as the blunt and acerbic Marc, who speaks to us candidly of his affinity for modern art and of his disdain for the recent acquisition by one of his two best friends, both of whom we are also about to meet."

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- Kevin T. Baldwin

Art at Lyric Stage Boston

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The Boston Globe - Highly Recommended

Joyce's Choices - Highly Recommended

Stage and Cinema - Recommended

New England Theater Mirror - Highly Recommended

METR Mag - Highly Recommended

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