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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:24pt;">Pulitzer Prize-winning drama</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Bookman Old Style';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:14pt;"></span></font></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:20pt;" lang="EN">Liz Conway </span></b><b><span style="COLOR:red;FONT-SIZE:18pt;" lang="EN">Catherine</span></b><span style="COLOR:black;" lang="EN"></span></font></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal" 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;"></span></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><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;"></span></b></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Comic Sans MS';COLOR:#7f007f;FONT-SIZE:16pt;">THE STORY:</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Comic Sans MS';COLOR:#0000bf;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt;"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Bookman Old Style';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:14pt;"></span></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><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;"></span></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><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;"></span></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><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.<br><br>Friday, September 21: 7:30pm<br>Saturday, September 22: 7:30pm<br>Sunday, September 23: 2:00pm<br>Friday, September 28: 7:30pm<br>Saturday, September 29: 7:30pm<br>Sunday, September 30: 7:30pm<br>Friday, October 5: 7:30pm<br>Saturday, October 6: 7:30pm<br>Sunday, October 7: 2:00pm</span><span style="COLOR:#007f7f;"> </span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Bookman Old Style';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:14pt;"></span></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:black;"><font face="Times New Roman"> <br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);"><span style="font-size: 24px;">Tickets:</span> <span style="font-size: large;">$13 for adults, $10 for seniors and $7 for students. </span></span><br></font></span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><b><span style="COLOR:#438059;"><font face="Times New Roman">For ticket information please call<span style=""> </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=""> </span>or email me, Martin Friedman, at </span></b><span style="COLOR:#6000bf;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=martinfriedman98@yahoo.com"><b><span style="COLOR:#438059;">martinfriedman98@yahoo.com</span></b></a>.</span><b><span style="COLOR:#438059;"> </span></b></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><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;"></span></b></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><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;"></span></b></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><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;"></span></b></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Calibri;COLOR:black;">"</span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Calibri;COLOR:#31849b;">PROOF surprises us with its aliveness…Mr. Auburn takes pleasure in knowledge…At the same time, he is unshowily fresh and humane, and he has written a lovely play." —NY Observer.</span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Calibri;COLOR:black;"> </span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Bookman Old Style';COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:14pt;"></span></b></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;BACKGROUND:white;" class="yiv1493279772MsoNormal"><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;"></span></b></div>
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