‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri as a Math Girl, Interrupted

The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play’s lack of rigor.

By Helen Shaw

‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle’s Actorly Equation - WSJ

‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle’s Actorly Equation  WSJ

Proof review – Ayo Edebiri struggles but Kara Young soars in Broadway revival

Booth Theatre, New York The Bear star and Don Cheadle are lost in a new take on David Auburn’s family drama but a standout performance from the two-time Tony winner does some heavy lifting If one was a theater student in the early 2000s, there is a good chance one encountered David Auburn’s Pulitzer-winning play, Proof, a work of tidy structure, elegant rhyme and, not for nothing, commercial appeal. (For theater, anyway.) Auburn carefully calibrates the funny with the sad, balances credible r...

By Richard Lawson

‘Proof’ Broadway Review: Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle Lead a Gripping but Oddly Paced Revival

Grief is one of the most confounding aspects of the human experience. To live is to experience loss, and yet, we are never truly prepared. This type of agony is always a detriment to mental health, even more so when someone is already predisposed to instability. In the first Broadway revival of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright […]

By Aramide Tinubu

‘Proof’ Review: ‘The Bear’ Star Ayo Edebiri Serves Up Transfixing Broadway Debut In Mathematical Mystery Play

You don’t have to come equipped with a knowledge of super-advanced mathematics, or even know what two-plus-two equals, to grasp, from the very start of Thomas Kail’s new revival of David Auburn’s Proof, that Ayo Edebiri, so good on TV’s restaurant drama (or comedy?) The Bear, and the Oscar-winning Don Cheadle are about to make […]

By Greg Evans