Walnut Street Theatre in PROOF by David Auburn

This is the remarkable and luminous story of fathers and daughters, genius and insanity, legacy and truth. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, (and turned into a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow) Proof tells the story of Catherine—a young woman who has given up college so that she can take care of her brilliant, yet mentally ill, father. One of his former students, Hal, comes to visit in search of more proof of his (former) math professor's genius. He finds romance with the remote Catherine and, when her father dies, an astonishing mathematical "proof" is discovered. Is the proof real? Who is the author? Will Catherine find her way in life or will she continue to be haunted by her past and by the shadow of her own future? This graceful, funny and clever play is a delightful romance, a drama of splintered family dynamics and a mystery about the true nature of genius. Walnut Street Theatre, the oldest continuously running professional theatre in the U.S.), brings us a fantastic production—as they did last year in The Glass Menagerie). Members of the company will also lead a master class for the theatre students and actors.

Admission Fee: $27.50- $32.50