{"id":99398,"date":"2025-08-21T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99398\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:23:07","slug":"ayo-edebiri-don-cheadle-to-make-broadway-debuts-in-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99398\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle To Make Broadway Debuts in &#8216;Proof&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ayo-edebiri\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ayo-edebiri_1\" data-tag=\"ayo-edebiri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ayo Edebiri<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/don-cheadle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_don-cheadle_1\" data-tag=\"don-cheadle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Cheadle<\/a> will make their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway_1\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> debuts next spring in a revival of Proof.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, written by David Auburn, will be directed by Thomas Kail, a Tony Award winner for his direction of Hamilton. The show is set to play a strictly limited engagement at a Shubert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/theater-0\/\" id=\"auto-tag_theater-0_1\" data-tag=\"theater-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">theater<\/a> to be announced with preview starting March 31, 2026, ahead of an April 16 opening night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tProof originally ran on Broadway from 2000 through 2003, starring Mary-Louise Parker and Larry Bryggman, and won three Tony Awards including best play and the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play was also adapted into a feature film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe story follows a daughter grieving the loss of her father, a brilliant mathematician who eventually has gradually lost his mind, and coming to grips with his life and the mathematical proof he\u2019s left behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEdebiri won an Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Sydney in FX\u2019s The Bear and has also appeared in projects including Bottoms, Theater Camp, Opus, Abbott Elementary and What We Do In The Shadows. This fall, she stars in Luca Guadagnino\u2019s new film After The Hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCheadle is an 11-time Emmy Award nominee and has appeared in numerous projects including\u00a0Boogie Nights, Hotel Rwanda, Steven Soderbergh\u2019s Oceans trilogy, Crash, and Miles Ahead. On television, he has starred in shows including Picket Fences, House of Lies, Black Monday and The Wonder Years. Cheadle made his New York stage debut in the Public Theater\u2019s 2001 production of Suzan-Lori Parks\u2019 Topdog\/Underdog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe play will be produced on Broadway by Kail and Mike Bosner. Additional casting will be announced in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle will make their Broadway debuts next spring in a revival of Proof.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[66029,21540,236,66030,88,12362],"class_list":{"0":"post-99398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ayo-edebiri","9":"tag-broadway","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-don-cheadle","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-theater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}