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STAGE REVIEW

New Repertory Theatre’s ‘Art’ is a portrait of friendship fraying

Ideas in ‘Art’ come through despite dialogue

By Don Aucoin

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 19, 2012

Somehow, despite the arch, mannered, stilted exchanges that often fall gratingly on the ear, the play of ideas in “Art’’ adds up to an absorbing evening, framed by a large and important question, one that most of us have grappled with: What’s the right course of action when a longtime friend is suddenly revealed as someone you didn’t know as well as you thought, and may never really have known at all?

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