PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE Comes To Chautauqua Playhouse Through 9/20

Chautauqua Playhouse presents PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE, by Steve Martin, through September 20. The show opened on August 14. This production is directed by Maggie Adair Upton.

America's favorite funny man, Steve Martin's, first comedy for the stage. Einstein and Picasso meet in a Paris cafe in 1904 just before they set the world afire. An infectious, time warping, dizzying romp!

Showtimes are Friday and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. For more information, visit http://cplayhouse.org/index.htm.

The Chautauqua Players were formed in 1975, by Rodger Hoopman. The name of the company came from the traveling Chautauqua shows that toured the country in tents in the early part of the 20th century. A revival tent had been offered to the company as a potential performing space in the summer of 1975. After one attempt at setting up the tent and the myriad problems involved (eight hours of work, putting the top on upside down and returning the next day to find the tent collapsed), the tent idea collapsed as well.

In the fall of 1975, the Chautauqua Players produced their first show, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, in the Old Eagle Theatre in Old Sacramento, and its success led to production of a Sherlock Holmes drama. The financial success of the two productions led Hoopman to a partnership with Gene Morrow and Eric Ericson and the pursuit of their own performing space.

Season subscribers and the theatre-going community enjoy a variety of new and traditional comedies, dramas, original plays and musical reviews, with a wide range of ethnic and cultural appeal. The group has been hailed by the Sacramento Bee as "one of the area's most consistent companies."