By:Francisco Mejia
Steve Martin's play imagines Einstein and Picasso tote-a-tote at a Paris cafe in 1904.
Human history is filled with great figures who changed the course of a century with one paint stroke or by mixing Solution A with Solution B. Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein were two such figures and "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," a play by former silver-haired, arrow-through-the-head madman Steve Martin, sets these men at a Paris cafe in 1904.
While there is no evidence that Picasso and Einstein ever had such a t