![]() "The piece, played without intermission, succeeds in being low-comedy funny while also suggesting that a great scientist and a great artist share a rarefied sense of beauty," Vincent Canby wrote in his review of the play. The play received favorable reviews when it was staged in New York City in 1996, with the New York Times calling it "a very engaging 75-minute shaggy dog of a comedy." The famous comedic film director made several unsuccessful attempts to create a movie version of the play that opened at the legendary Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago in 1993. "The play imagines, in a light-hearted and humorous way, the similarities of the creative process involved with great leaps of imagination in art and science," Martin wrote. through April 2 at Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Avenue. The play runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Ruskin Group Theatre production of “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” (Photo by Khue Cai) ![]() ![]() “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” takes place at a Parisian bar shortly before Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and Pablo Picasso’s cubist paintings transformed how we see the modern world. Febru- Actor and director Steve Martin's first full-length play - which chronicles a fantasy meeting between Einstein and Picasso in 1904 - opens at the Ruskin Theater in Santa Monica tonight. ![]()
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