Comedy “Picasso and the Lapin Agile” takes the stage at UW-Stevens Point

Enjoy a comedy about two of the world's greatest minds at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point this October.

"Picasso at the Lapin Agile", written by actor and playwright Steve Martin, will be staged in the Studio Theatre of the Noel Fine Arts Center, 1800 Portage St., Stevens Point. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17-18, with a matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 18-19.

Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 for seniors and UW-Stevens Point faculty and staff, and $16 for youth. Tickets will be available for purchase at tickets.uwsp.edu, by calling 715-346-4100 or by visiting the Information and Tickets Office in the Dreyfus University Center in Stevens Point.

This long-running off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian café in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. As the characters all muse about the dawning of the twentieth century, they realize that they are also defining the new century.

Director and Assistant Professor said, "Martin instills in all of us the same sense of optimism about the years ahead that Einstein and Picasso had for the twentieth century."