Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions (Jake Lipman, Artistic Director and Producer) announced its spring 2010 production of Proof by David Auburn. Kristen Kentner directs this production of Proof, which garnered the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play in 2001. Proof marks Tongue in Cheek Theater’s ninth production.
Catherine (Jake Lipman) is having a rough week. Her father Robert (Daryl Brown), a gifted but troubled mathematics professor, has died. While her older sister Claire (Deirdre MacNamara) returns to sort out his affairs and her father’s protégé Hal (Brian W. Seibert) searches her father’s papers for work of unpublished brilliance, Catherine struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: how much of her father’s madness—or genius—she has inherited.
Proof is stage managed by Allison Lemel. Philip Rothman is technical advisor and sound designer. David Auburn’s other works include the plays Skyscraper and What Do You Believe About The Future?, and the screenplays The Lake House and The Girl in the Park. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
During the dark nights of Proof, Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions is pleased to present the second Plus One Solo Show Festival, featuring three original solo shows on both nights, on topics as diverse as out-of-this-world dreams (How I Became An Astronaut by Fara Greenbaum), the complicated lives of American Muslim Pakistani women (Dirty Paki Lingerie by Aizzah Fatima), and a quest for romantic adventure (The Make-Out Queen by Bronwen Prosser).
Tongue in Cheek Theater is an independent theater company dedicated to producing seriously funny theater. Its mission is to tell stories which resonate with universal truth and which make its audiences laugh in recognition of those truths. About the company’s recent revival of EVan Smith’s Psych, NYTheatre.com called it “heavenly…plenty of tongue and an appropriate amount of cheek.”
Proof runs for eight performances, April 28-May 8, 2010, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. at the Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios. The Plus One Solo Show Festival runs Sunday and Monday, May 2 and 3, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios at 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor, between 7th and 8th Avenues in New York City, is accessible from the B, D, E train to 7th Avenue, N, Q, R, W to 57th Street, and the A, C, 1 to 59th Street/Columbus Circle. Tickets are $17 online ($20 at the door) at www.tictheater.com or by telephoning 212-868-4444.
