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First Look: Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle Lead Proof’s Broadway Revival

The 16-week engagement brings David Auburn’s Pulitzer-winning play back to Broadway under Thomas Kail.

Overview

  • Playbill released new production photos from the Booth Theatre ahead of the official opening.
  • The revival stars Ayo Edebiri as Catherine, Don Cheadle as Robert, Jin Ha as Hal, and two-time Tony winner Kara Young as Claire.
  • Hamilton director Thomas Kail leads the production, with Mike Bosner and Kail producing a strictly limited 16-week run.
  • The play follows a mathematician’s daughter who must prove who wrote a landmark proof while confronting her father’s mental illness.
  • Proof premiered Off-Broadway in 2000, transferred to Broadway to win the 2001 Pulitzer and three Tonys, ran 917 performances, and was adapted into a 2005 film.