‘Proof’ Broadway Review: Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle Lead a Gripping but Oddly Paced Revival

Grief is one of the most confounding aspects of the human experience. To live is to experience loss, and yet, we are never truly prepared. This type of agony is always a detriment to mental health, even more so when someone is already predisposed to instability. In the first Broadway revival of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn’s Tony Award-winning play, “Proof,” a young woman reels from her father’s death amid her own rapidly deteriorating mental health. Tormented by her own fears, doubted by her father’s peers, and infantilized by her older sister, Catherine (Ayo Edebiri in her Broadway debut) walks the line between self-confidence and deep distrust. The play

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