"Proof": Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri make their Broadway bows

Ayo Edebiri’s Chanel Dress Is a Silk Explosion

Bruce Glikas/WireImage/Getty ImagesIf there’s one constant in Ayo Edebiri’s fashion evolution, it’s that she’ll always take the opportunity to deliver an unexpected statement. To celebrate her first leading role in Proof on Broadway, the actress gamely wore one of the most complex looks from Chanel’s spring 2026 haute couture collection—and did so in soaring style.For Proof’s opening night at the Booth Theatre in New York City—the play’s first r…

Review: Ayo Edebiri is stunning in a new 'Proof' on Broadway

NEW YORK — What a fantastic gift the playwright David Auburn and the director Thomas Kail have given to Ayo Edebiri. After playing second fiddle to Jeremy Allen White on “The Bear,” her verbally halting character constantly at the mercy of ...

"Proof": Don Cheadle and Ayo Edebiri make their Broadway bows

The celebrated actors are both making their Broadway debuts in a revival of David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winner "Proof," about a brilliant mathematics professor with mental-health issues, and his daughter with issues of her own.

Inside Opening Night of PROOF with Don Cheadle, Ayo Edebiri & More

The best of Broadway was at the Booth Theatre last week, where the first Broadway revival of Proof, David Auburn’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof officially opened. In Proof, Catherine (Ayo Edebiri), the brilliant but restless daughter of renowned mathematics professor Robert (Don Cheadle), is thrust into turmoil when a notebook containing a revelatory proof is discovered after his death. As debate erupts over its true authorship, C…