Art

At the John Golden Theatre, *Art* arrives as a New York staging that treats music as a subject, not just a soundtrack. The piece circles the idea of “art music,” where craft, notation, and theory are part of the drama, and where “serious” listening is set against everyday sound. As a musical play, it uses performance to question who gets to define refinement and whose traditions are kept in the room. Its most pointed move is refusing easy answers, letting taste read like power.