From left to right, Ben Shenkman, Johanna Day and Mary Louise Parker celebrated the opening of the play, Proof, May 23 at Manhattan Theatre Club. Playwright David Auburn is pictured with Parker.
In this new work, set in Chicago, a mysterious young woman faces the death of a genius father, an unexpected suitor and a mysterious mathematical proof. Daniel Sullivan, who helmed Broadway's current A Moon for the Misbegotten, as well as Off-Broadway's Dinner With Friends, directs on MTC's Stage I. Performances continue to July 9.