Michael Braun, Kristen Bush & More to Lead McCarter Theatre's DOUBT; Full Cast Announced

McCarter Theatre Center will open its 2013-2014 Theater Season with David Auburn's Proof, directed by Artistic Director Emily Mann. The production will run from September 6 through October 6. Opening night is set for September 12.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Proof is an elegant and engaging story of passion, genius, and family bonds. Catherine has inherited her late father's mathematical brilliance, but does she also share his madness? When one of his graduate students discovers a groundbreaking proof among the professor's notebooks, Catherine must face the legacy her father has left behind.

The cast of Proof features Michael Braun (Hal), Kristen Bush (Catherine), Jessica Dickey (Claire), and Michael Siberry (Robert).

The creative team includes three-time Tony Award winner Eugene Lee (set designer), Jennifer Von Mayrhauser (costume designer), Stephen Strawbridge (lighting designer), and Mark Bennett (sound designer).

About the play, Ms. Mann said, "I knew I wanted to select a contemporary American play because I thought it would complement the rest of the season. When I thought about plays from the last 15 years that I loved, Proof immediately came to mind. We have never produced it at McCarter and I felt that I had a special connection to the play, being a University of Chicago faculty child myself and having had a very close bond with my father. I went back and read the play and it leaped off the page at me. It's such a good play. It's so sparely, beautifully written and the motor is sort of unusual for a relationship play. It almost feels like, not exactly a detective story, but there is suspense involved in a way that's really interesting to me and deeply imbedded in the character relationship."

David Auburn's plays include The Columnist with John Lithgow (Manhattan Theatre Club/Broadway); The New York Idea (adaptation; Atlantic Theater); Proof (Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award); An Upset and Amateurs (EST Marathons); and Skyscraper. Films include The Girl in the Park (writer/director) and The Lake House. Recent directing credits include Michael Weller's Side Effects for MCC Theatre and A Delicate Balance for the Berkshire Theatre Festival. His short plays have been collected in the volume Fifth Planet and Other Plays(Dramatist Play Service). His work has been published in Harper's, New England Review, and Guilt and Pleasure; and he was a contributing editor to the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City.

Tickets for Proof start as low as $20, and can be purchased online at www.mccarter.org, by phone at (609) 258-2787, or in person at the McCarter Theatre Ticket Office, located at 91 University Place in Princeton.

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