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celebrity.
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1 Used to be
4 “No ___” (“Don’t
sweat it!”)
8 “Uh” sound
13 Lawyer: Abbr.
14 Campaign worker
15 Too many pairs
on the closet
floor
16 Pi follower
17 Music holders
that are obsolete
anyway
18 Holds forthPrevious Puzzle’s Solution19 Spoke Persian?
21 Summer worker
23 Negated the
effects of
24 Reading material
you probably
won’t ever look
at again
27 Item crammed
into a kitchen
cabinet
28 Cheryl of
“Charlie’s Angels”
29 Used a bench
30 He debated
Pence in 2016
32 There’s a salmon
on its state
quarter35 Containers that
just contain more
stuff
38 Kitchen gadget
you’ve used
maybe once
39 Rich cakes
40 Crimean resort
41 Messenger
material
42 Madcap
43 Kitchen item you
have dozens of
but only ever use
afew
47 Old lamps that
might not even
work anymore,
e.g.51 Hunt goddess
52 Throughout
53 Good doctor
54 Not knowing
what’s right
56 One of dozens
on a rack, some
of which are
super-ugly
58 Awful
59 Item whose sole
function is
duplicated by
your phone
60 Camera feature
61 Troop-supporting
grp.
62 Piglet’s penner
63 Comes to a close
64 Fellows
Down
1 Pregame practice
2 Zeus’s favorite
3Gotup
4 Walked back and
forth
5 Get ___ of (toss)
6 Like 2019, but
not 2020
7 Next to
8 Mike Myers
voiced him
9 “Cosmos” author
Sagan
10 Feature of
summers in the
Sahara
11 Lilliputian
12 Foolish person15 Nats outfielder
Juan
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22 Subtle signal
24 Makes illegal
25 Snatch
26 Betelgeuse, e.g.
28 Perjury, e.g.
31 Polished off
32 Comrade-in-arms
33 Very exciting
34 Thorny tree
35 Key with no
vowels
36 Rice-A-___
37 Cloth toy
38 Belted one out
40 Asia’s longest
river
42 Red from Cali
44 Adele’s “19” or
“25”
45 Nervous feeling
46 Inmate’s dream
48 Neighbor of
Michigan
49 Slightest amount
50 Category
51 Considers
53 Mason’s brick
carrier
54 Morning: Abbr.
55 Verizon bought it
in 2006
57 Charged particles
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DAVID AUBURNis having an ex-
cellent year. His new stage adapta-
tion of Saul Bellow’s “The Adven-
tures of Augie March” opened to
universal acclaim at Chicago’s
Court Theatre in May. Two months
later, he directed an important re-
vival of Thornton Wilder’s “The
Skin of Our Teeth” for Massachu-
setts’ Berkshire Theatre Group.
Now “Proof,” Mr. Auburn’s 2000
drama about a young mathemati-
cian who fears for her sanity, is
being presented by Baltimore’s Ev-
eryman Theatre, a regional com-
pany deserving of wider recogni-
tion. “Proof” hasn’t returned to
Broadway since it won a Pulitzer
Prize in 2001 and wrapped up a
917-performance run there two
years later, and it happens that I
missed the original production, so
I decided to drive down to Balti-
more and see what I’d missed.
Quite a bit, as it turns out: “Proof”
is a superior piece of theatrical
work, and Paige Hernandez’s finely
cast staging reveals it to be timely
as well.
Catherine (Katie Kleiger), the
deeply unhappy 25-year-old central
character of “Proof,” dropped out
of college to take care of Robert
(Bruce Randolph Nelson), her fa-
ther and one of the foremost math-
ematicians of his generation, whose
career came to an abrupt halt when
he fell victim to mental illness. Now
Robert is dead, Catherine is trying
to figure out how to restart her
own thwarted life, and Claire (Me-
gan Anderson), her older sister,
who has come back to Chicago for
their father’s funeral, fears that
Catherine may suffer from the
same disease. Enter Hal (Jeremy
Keith Hunter), one of Robert’s pro-
THEATER| TERRY TEACHOUT
Of Minds, Brilliant and Beleaguered
The death of a mathematician and the struggles of his daughter who may be afflicted by the same mental illness he had
A scene from
‘Proof,’ above;
Bruce Randolph
Nelson as Robert,
left; Katie Kleiger as
Catherine and
Jeremy Keith Hunter
as Hal, far leftLIFE & ARTS
DJ COREY (3)that do these same
kinds of things
well. Boston’s Lyric
Stage Company,
Chicago’s Writers
Theatre, Florida
Repertory Theatre,
Massachusetts’
Barrington Stage,
New Hampshire’s
Peterborough Play-
ers, the Shake-
speare Theatre of
New Jersey, New
York’s Irish Reper-
tory Theatre and
Mint Theater,
Pennsylvania’s Peo-
ple’s Light: These are some of the
small-to-medium-size theater com-
panies whose taste I’ve come to
trust sight unseen. With this re-
vival of “Proof,” Everyman Theatre
joins their ranks. It’s the kind of
show that’s worth taking a long
trip to see.Proof
Everyman Theatre, 315 W. Fayette St.,
Baltimore ($10-$65), 410-752-2208,
closes Oct. 6Mr. Teachout, the Journal’s drama
critic, is the author of “Satchmo at
the Waldorf.” Write to him at
[email protected].tégés, who is sifting through his ac-
cumulated papers and finds what
may be a major piece of unpub-
lished work—one that Robert ap-
parently completed in secret during
his illness...or did he?
What we have here, in short, is
an intellectual whodunit, one that
recalls Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia”
without aspiring to Mr. Stoppard’s
flashy loop-the-loopery. It’s also is-
sue-conscious without being issue-
driven, and the two issues at theheart of the action—the debilitat-
ing demands of caregiving and the
question of whether women find it
harder than men to win recogni-
tion for achievement in the arts
and sciences—are, if possible, even
more to the point now than they
were two decades ago. Fortunately,
Mr. Auburn, like Mr. Stoppard, em-
beds these larger concerns in a
moving human drama, and the re-
sult is an intelligent entertainment
that is well-made in the best sense
of that double-edged word.
Everyman Theatre, which I first
visited four years ago and to
which I have since gone back as
often as possible, is the kind of
company that might also be de-
scribed as “well-made.” It favors
traditionally crafted plays and pro-
duces them in a beautifully pro-
portioned 250-seat theater located
in downtown Baltimore that
houses a resident ensemble of ac-
tors and designers. Three of the
four members of the cast of
“Proof” are members of this en-
semble, as are Ms. Hernandez and
Daniel Ettinger, the set designer,
who has placed the action of the
play in an old, rundown Chicago
house whose translucent walls hint
at the subtleties of the characters’
relationships. The look and feel of
the production are thus satisfy-
ingly solid—Ms. Kleiger and Ms.
Anderson give the impression of
being sisters, not actors—in a way
to which only a permanent ensem-
ble can aspire. As for Ms. Kleiger,
you feel every bit of her raw des-
peration, as well as the unexpected
sense of hope with which she is
suddenly filled when she senses
that Hal is attracted to her.Part of what is so impressive
about this staging, and about Ev-
eryman Theatre more generally, is
its lack of self-regarding showiness.
Everyone is clearly committed to
presenting Mr. Auburn’s play in a
way that is scrupulously faithful to
his intentions: This is David Au-
burn’s “Proof,” not Paige Hernan-
dez’s “Proof.” At the same time,
there is nothing stiff or impersonal
about the production—it draws you
in as soon as the lights go down,
and doesn’t release you until the
very last beat of the script.
In my theater-going travels
throughout America, I find myself
drawn time and again to troupes