Olney Theatre Center presents "Proof"

Dawn Ursula (Arena Stage's A Raisin in the Sun) stars as Catherine, the bereaved daughter of a brilliant, but chronically mentally ill mathematician. Catherine worries that she has inherited her father's mental illness, but more central to the drama is whether she also inherited his genius. A penetrating mystery at the center of this Pulitzer Prize winner and the stellar cast illuminate the ways in which family and lovers define and defy expectations of genius and madness. Craig Wallace (Mosaic's Satchmo at the Waldorf) co-stars as Robert, the brilliant mathematician whose movements between sanity and brilliance are the polestars by which Catherine has lived her life. Aakhu TuahNera Freeman (Intelligence at Arena Stage), plays Catherine's successful older sister Claire and Biko Eisen-Martin plays Hal, Robert's former protege with an academic interest in his mentor's final mathematical proof and a romantic interest in his daughter.