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PROOF

Comes to the Wortham Center
January 2-13, 2002



WINNER: The 2001 Tony Award for Best Play and The 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. David Auburn's Award - Winning Play centers on the relationship between a math professor and his eccentric daughter, who has inherited both her father's genius and his mental instability. Presented by Broadway in Houston from January 2 - 13, 2002 at the Cullen Theatre, Wortham Center. Photo by Jean-Marie Guyaux.


Starring

Robert Foxworth
and
Chelsea Altman

PROOF, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Auburn, will make its Houston debut starring Robert Foxworth and Chelsea Altman at Cullen Theater/ Wortham Center, 500 Texas Street, Houston, Texas from January 2nd through the 13th, 2002 to open the 2002 Six-Show Season of Broadway in Houston.

Directed by Daniel Sullivan, PROOF premiered in 1999 at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. Having captured Tony Awards for "Best Play" and "Best Director" of 2001, the show continues its successful Broadway run at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

"Exhilarating," proclaimed The New York Times, which went on to tout PROOF as "an assured new play that is as accessible and compelling as a detective story." Says The New Yorker, "Auburn has taken on some of the biggies here:
what the link may be between genius and mental instability, why it is that lives get stuck, and how elusive the truth can be."



Father and Daughter: Robert Foxworth as the brilliant but unstable father and Chelsea Altman as his daughter Catherine


Set on the back porch of a house in Chicago's Hyde Park, PROOF is a compelling drama of love, reconciliation and a brilliant, mysterious mathematical proof. On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father Robert, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister,
Claire, the intentions of her father's former student, Hal, and the question of whether or not she has inherited her father's madness, his genius or both.

Robert Foxworth and Chelsea Altman take the roles of Robert and his daughter Catherine, supported by Tasha Lawrence as Claire and Stephen Kunken as Hal.

Playwright David Auburn received the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play and the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for PROOF. His other plays include Skyscraper,
Fifth Planet, Miss You and The Next Life. Current film projects include
"Triage" for Mirage.


Robert Foxworth



Houston native Robert Foxworth (Lamar High School class of '60), a star of
stage, screen and television, steps into the role originated on Broadway by
Larry Bryggman. Foxworth, who began his career at the Alley Theatre in
Houston, was seen on Broadway in the 2001 season as chief prosecutor
Colonel Parker in Judgement at Nuremberg.

Also on Broadway, he starred with Jane Alexander in Honour, and played the Count in Ivanov at Lincoln Center with Kevin Kline. Among his regional theatre credits are Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, the Roundabout, LA's Geffen Playhouse and Matrix Theatre, San Diego's Globe Theatre, Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Cleveland's Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Center Stage in Baltimore, and Hartford Stage. On television, he currently has a recurring role on Alan Ball's HBO series "Six Feet Under." He has guest starred on "Law and Order, SVU," "City of Angels" and others, starred as Pearce on "Lateline" and for six seasons was known as Chase Gioberti on "Falcon Crest." He is the recipient of the Theatre World Award and the Dramalogue Award.

Chelsea Altman's Broadway credits include Letta in Death of A Salesman
directed by Robert Falls and Catherine in A View From the Bridge directed
by Michael Mayer. Off-Broadway she appeared in Collected Stories at Manhattan
Theatre Club and played Maggie in Peter Hedges' Good as New, Sky in The
Monogamist at Playwright's Horizons, Vivie in Mrs. Warren's Profession at
the Pearl Theatre and Fay in The Able Bodied Seaman at Manhattan Class
Company.


Chelsea Altman



Trained at William Esper Studios with Bill Esper and Barbara Marchant,
she lists among her regional credits Baltimore Center Stage, Houston's Alley Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, A Contemporary Theatre and Denver Center for the Performing Arts. On television she has guest starred on "Law and Order," the HBO movie "The Becky Belle Story: An Unnecessary Death," "Young at Heart" with Olympia Dukakis and Frank Sinatra and a 1998 NBC pilot, "Cold Feet." She appeared on film in Heartbreak Hospital and Blue in the Face.

Director Daniel Sullivan won the Tony Award for directing PROOF. His other
Broadway credits include the revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, An
American Daughter, The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters Rosensweig. His
Off-Broadway directing credits include Dinner with Friends, Far East, The
Substance of Fire and Manhattan Theatre Club's Psychopathia Sexualis. From
1981 to 1997 Sullivan was Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre,
where he developed new works by Bill Irwin, Wendy Wasserstein, A.R. Gurney
and Arthur Miller, among others.



(L-R) Stephen Kunken as the boyfriend HAL, Tasha Lawrence as the older, more responsible sister CLAIRE, and Chelsea Altman as CATHERINE



PROOF is produced by Manhattan Theatre Club - Lynne Meadow, Artistic
Director, and Barry Grove, Executive Producer; Roger Berlind; Carole
Shorenstein Hays; Jujamcyn Theaters; Ostar Enterprises; Daryl Roth; and
Stuart Thompson.

Performances for the two-week engagement of PROOF are Monday-Friday at 8:00
p.m., Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, Sunday at 2pm and 7:30 p.m. Tickets
($54-$58) may be purchased at Ticketmaster locations, online at
www.ticketmaster.com or charged by phone at (713) 629-3700. Groups of 20 or
more may call (713) 693-2692 or toll free 1-800-451-5986.




THE CAST OF PROOF