Black Curtain Theatre: Proof

By David Auburn

Pulitzer and Tony-Award Winning Play for Drama

November 9 & 10, 2024 7:30pm $12 adults, $10 students

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a quick-witted and stubborn young woman, has spent years caring for Robert, her unstable but brilliant father known as a mathematical genius at the University of Chicago. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions, the arrival of her estranged sister, and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her fathers who discovers a paradigm-shifting proof about prime numbers in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problems of all: Can Catherine prove the proof's authorship? And how much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit? Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Proof “combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre.”