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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: #6000bf; FONT-SIZE: 24pt">David Auburn</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 24pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>Liz Conway </SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>Catherine</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 20pt">Laurel Hoffman </SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>Claire</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Directed by</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #823857; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Martin Friedman</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Sets and Lights Designed by</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #823857; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Keith Nagy</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: black">… an exhilarating and assured new play by David Auburn that turns the esoteric world of higher mathematics literally into a back porch drama, one that is as accessible and compelling as a detective story.” NY Times</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The play, which opened in May, 2000, is fundamentally a mystery about the authorship of a particularly important proof, a mystery that is solved in the end; it is also, however, about the unravelable enigma of genius, and the toll it can take on those who are beset with it, aspire to it or merely live in its vicinity. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">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 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?</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: #6000bf; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Proof </SPAN><B><SPAN style="COLOR: #007f7f; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">opens on Friday, September 21 and runs through October 7, 2012--Friday through Sunday.</SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: #007f7f"> </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: #438059"><FONT face="Times New Roman">For ticket information please call<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: black">440-525-7526</SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style="COLOR: #438059"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>or email me, Martin Friedman, at </SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: #6000bf"><A href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=martinfriedman98@yahoo.com" target=_blank><B><SPAN style="COLOR: #438059">martinfriedman98@yahoo.com</SPAN></B></A>.</SPAN><B><SPAN style="COLOR: #438059"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #943634; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">" </SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #943634">When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to </SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #943634">the club. PROOF is the one you won't want to miss this fall." —NY Magazine. </SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #17365d">"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[PROOF is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas." NY Daily News. </SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri; COLOR: #1f497d">"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" —Variety.</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></div>
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