We’re excited to share Bennington Theater’s 2026 Community Theater Season! Four productions presented throughout the year that celebrate bold ideas, classic stories, big laughs, and the joy of gathering together in the theater. This season moves from a sharp, contemporary sequel to a theatrical classic, to a locally rooted reimagining of…
by Jess Hoffman The premise of Classic Theater Guild’s current production, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, is a simple but very intriguing one: an absurdist comedy about a chance encounter between a young Albert Einstein and a young Pablo Picasso at a French nightclub in 1904. If this absurdist piece…
“Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” Steve Martin’s absurdist comedy about a chance encounter at a Parisian bar between painter Pablo Picasso and physicist Albert Einstein before either of them became famous, will be staged by Classic Theater Guild (CTG) starting two weeks from today, on Thursday, January 18, 2024, at Congregation…
Classic Theater Guild is pleased to announce auditions for our proposed Winter 2024 shows! Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin Monday, November 13th and Tuesday, November 14th (If needed, a 3rd night of auditions will be held on Thursday, Nov 16th.) Sign-ups 6:30pm, Auditions start at 7pm A Shayna Maidel…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 1999 At one point in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” author Steve Martin,(yes, that Steve Martin) has a minor character admonish Picasso and Einstein saying something to the effect of, “You must watch your words very carefully, or they will turn on you like…
