Professor Nakamoto's Nexus of Numbers

[Editor’s Note: The Hollywood Fringe show, Professor Nakamoto’s Nexus of Numbers, was previously known as Patterns: The Numbers & Symbols show. This review was written when the show carried its earlier name.]

CAPITAL FRINGE REVIEW: ‘PATTERNS: A NUMBERS & SYMBOLS SHOW’
by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
July 20, 2013
FOUR AND A HALF STARS

Magic opens our eyes to wonder, fantasy, and possibilities . . . and then reveals the truth.

Without introduction or fanfare, a solo performer strolls onto the Main Stage of Goethe Institut. In a relaxed, low energy and conversational tone, the mustached and slightly silver haired goateed man begins to talk a...

When Gregg Tobo takes the stage as the enthusiastic Professor Nakamoto, he looks like an unassuming college professor. But don’t let your guard down, because soon you’ll be wondering what’s real and what’s fantastical.

It’s all part of Tobo’s one-person show, “Professor Nakamoto’s Nexus of Numbers,” an unbelievable combination of mind tricks and mathematics that plays at Theatre Asylum’s Elephant Space, June 21 – 29, 2014. The 55-minute play tells of Professor Nakamoto’s obsessive mathematical inquiries and his search for patterns, all of which builds to an impossible and inexplicable climax. Afterwards, one must conclude that Tobo (the show’s author and performer) is either a mathematical genius or a skilled and subtle magician.

Or perhaps he’s both.

Tobo doesn’t deny that he’s a magician, and yes he knows how to perform mathematical memory stunts like memorizing 500...