Hampton Roads Premiere - Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off Broadway Play - One of America's most treasured comic actors has tumed his talents toward playwriting. The result is a unique mixture of the whimsical and the profound in a play that is delighting both audiences and critics around the country. Martin invents a meeting of a young and undiscovered Pablo Picasso and an equally young and unproven Albert Einstein in 1904 in a Parisian pub~ the Lapin Agile. The ridiculous mixes with the sublime as the two men engage in a battle of ideas about probability, lust, artistic integrity and the future. Martin's play is a compelling examination of science and art and their impact on a rapidly changing society.

"Steve Martin's comic wit has never been sharper." - USA Today
"Picasso at the Lapin Agile is Martn's poker faced and very funny-riff on the birth of the modern century." - New York

About the Author: As a teenager, Steve Martin sold guidebooks in the shadow of Disneyland, and would entertain his customers with his banjo and magic act. He tried to get serious by studying philosophy in college, then figured, "What am I going to do? Open a philosophy shop?" He wrote comedy for Sonny and Cher, John Denver, Dick Van Dyke, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (which earned him an Emmy for outstanding writing), but eventually found his true calling on-stage as a stand-up. The prematurely gray comedian was a hit in comedy clubs. During his performances, Martin walked a fine line between idiocy and irony, wearing an arrow through his head and fashioning balloon animals while making existentialist jokes. His Grammy-winning albums and his appearances on Johnny Carson's sofa and Saturday Night Live earned him wild and crazy popularity. (S.N.L. characters King Tut and Czech brother Georg Festrunk were among Martin's most brilliant.) The performer's self-mocking, manic-depressive persona and fluid body language adapted well to comedy features: All of Me , Little Shop of Horrors , and The Jerk were bizarre strides in comedic history. Martin's greatest success was 1987's Roxanne, which he also wrote, though he stumbled with Leap of Faith and Mixed Nuts. Martin has proven himself equally capable in more dramatic roles, with nuanced performances in Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Grand Canyon, and The Spanish Prisoner. Off-screen, Martin takes himself, his career as a playwright, and his fine art collection, very seriously.