A professor says he has found something closer to definitive proof that some 325 lines in the 1602 quarto edition of Thomas Kyd's play "The Spanish Tragedy" were indeed written by Shakespear…
Scandal rocked the Bolshoi this year when its artistic director had acid thrown in his face. Nikolai Tsiskaridze, the troupe's recently sacked principal dancer, tells Judith Mackrell why he …
Scandal rocked the Bolshoi this year when its artistic director had acid thrown in his face. Nikolai Tsiskaridze, the troupe's recently sacked principal dancer, tells Judith Mackrell why he …
Brad Fleischer and Arian Moayed in Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo (photo by Craig Schwartz) In the current issue of American Theatre, I've got an interview with playwright Rajiv Joseph (Gr…
McCarter Theatre artistic director Emily Mann has announced the five theatre productions that will comprise McCarter's 2013-14 season.
Every year at this time, there's usually a Broadway show that legiters say really needs a Tony " a worthy but underselling title for which an award looks like a potential box office savior. …
PROOF (WHITMORE-ECLECTIC): 100% " SWEET SWEET Speaking of inheriting genes from our parents, James must have passed some of his talent off to his daughter Aliah, She is talented in both dire…
NEW YORK " The beat of David Byrne's sexy new life-of-Imelda-Marcos musical, "Here Lies Love," never rests. And neither, for that matter, does the audience. In a black-box-turned-disco insid…
More than a decade since its premiere, Proof shows no signs of aging. It beautifully captures the curse and the gift of beautiful minds.
Keira Keeley and Colby Chambers ponder the music of the spheres. Photo: Meghan MooreAs a self-appointed high priest in the sacred temple of the theatre, I know I'm supposed to look dow…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThe line between madness and genius; the degree to which we resemble our parents; the difficulty of ever really proving the relationships that exist between t…
Reviewed by: MELODY UDELL You don't need to be a math genius to understand that something brilliant is going on in Hyde Park. Director Charles Newell has staged a stripped down, emotionally …
The question as to who wrote a groundbreaking solution to a theorem becomes the driving force of David Auburn's play, writes Sarah Hemming
The question as to who wrote a groundbreaking solution to a theorem becomes the driving force of David Auburn's play, writes Sarah Hemming
Proof tells the story of Robert (Matthew Marsh), a one-time maths genius who, now middle-aged, suffers from an unspecified, sporadic madness and general mental decline, after his skills peak…
 Court Theatre announces new performance dates for its smash-hit production of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof, directed by Artistic Director Charles Newell. Th…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonLondon theatre has a thing about prime numbers at the moment. They feature prominently in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and they also pop…
Polly Findlay's revival of David Auburn's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory last night (20 March 2013, previews from 13 March).The production,…
David Auburn takes the deep complexities of maths and uses them as a subtle metaphor for human interactions, creating a piece that is so much more than the sum of its parts. Mariah Gale̵…
Mariah Gale & Matthew Marsh in Proof (photo: Nobby Clark) This Pulitzer-winning play from David Auburn, first seen in London in 2002 in a production at the Donmar starring Gwyneth Paltrow (w…
Menier Chocolate Factory, London: David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, written in 2000, was first seen in London in 2002 at the Donmar, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Catherine. It …
Mathematicians are a breed apart, bandying numbers about in a way that few outside their magic circle can fully understand. David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play uses this exclusiveness…
The Merrimack Repertory Theatre presents David Auburn's PROOF, running March 21 - April 14, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the rehearsal below.
In searching for answers one must always be able to prove that the answers they have found are true. A deeply profound tale of how life must always keep going until it stops completely is wh…
You may well think you have seen David Auburn's "Proof," the story of a single, 25-year-old Hyde Park woman grieving for the mathematically brilliant father who has left her bereft. The Broa…