FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile Summers at the Boston Center for the Arts

BOSTON: Company One announced today that they will produce the Off-Broadway hit Picasso at the Lapin Agile, at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St. Performances for this six-week run will begin on Thursday, July 8, 1999 and will end Saturday, August 14, 1999. Performances will be Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. with an additional matinee at 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Tickets cost $18 and $15 for students and seniors, and can be purchased in advance by calling the Boston Center for the Arts Box Office at (617) 426-2787.

Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile creates a fictional meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, both heartbeats away from setting the world ablaze with ideas that will change the world and define the twentieth century. Directed by Mark VanDerzee, Picasso (Shawn LaCount) and Einstein (David Carter) come together in the Parisian Bohemia of the early twentieth century to celebrate the powerful force of imaginative creation.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile has been heralded by critics across the United States. Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it "Very engaging!" It has been proclaimed "an invigorating vaudeville for the mind," by Dennis Cunningham of WCBS-Channel 2 (New York), a "pow-wow of dizzying proportions," by Mark De La Vina of The San Jose Mercury News, and a "rollicking good time," by Robert Hurwitt of The San Francisco Examiner. The play won the 1996 Outer Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play and Best Writer.