And so the season of the Hollywood actor continues in Midtown Manhattan. This time, the young Ayo Edebiri and the seasoned Don Cheadle make their Broadway debuts in David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, Proof. Edebiri stars as Catherine, the daughter of Robert (Cheadle), a brilliant, recently deceased mathematician whose pioneering theory about prime numbers is discovered in an old notebook. But can Catherine, who is as intelligent and perhaps as mentally ill as her father, prove the proof’s authorship? Thomas Kail directs. —Jeanne Malle
Arts Intel Report
Proof
Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri in the art for Proof.
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Mar 31 – July 19, 2026
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Illustration: Alexis Frankin