Proof

Directed by ACT alum Autumn N. Lowry, “Proof” is the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play about fathers and daughters, the nature of genius, and the power of love. Show dates for “Proof” are March 26 - 29, 2026, with tickets on sale February 13, 2026. 

 On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work 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 problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?

This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play is an intelligent and compelling story about fathers and daughters, the nature of genius, and the power of love.

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