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Brilliant or Blank? ‘Art’ Frames Love-Hate Bromances on Broadway

Yasmina Reza’s 1998 comedy abounds in witty chuckles and elegant structure, but it remains a slight boulevard comedy: three self-obsessed Frenchmen bickering over a pricey painting.

By David Cote

My Top Seven Rules for a Successful Life

Life is about using the opportunities that come your way to improve at whatever it is you do.

By Marcus Geduld

In Defense of ‘The Cursed Child’

I’m impatient and impulsive, and so I’m pro-spoiler by default—choosing just to lean in to my perpetual habit of flipping to the end of books to find out who survives and reading the Wikipedia summary of any horror movie I might want to see.

By Dana Schwartz

TO DO THIS WEEK: See ‘The Undeniable Sound of Right Now’

By Ken Kurson

What Would <em>Seinfeld</em> Look Like on Broadway?

By Drew Grant

Times’ Gerry Marzorati on Play: No Options to ‘Make it Viable’

By John Koblin

No Pay to Play

By Felix Gillette

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