[Ed. Note: TheaterMania had Melissa Rose Bernardo review Proof when it originally opened at Manhattan Theatre Club this past spring. Now that the production has transferred to the Walter Kerr Theater on Broadway, we are running a re-edited version of that review, below.]

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Director Daniel Sullivan has many talents; one need only look at the past few years, and his glorious productions of classics such as Ah, Wilderness! and soon-to-be-classics such as Dinner With Friends, for evidence. But he has a particular knack for stage kisses. Hopeless romantic that I am, I remember these three most vividly: Lisa Emery and Michael Hayden in Far East (the kiss was sweet, tentati[...]

Director Daniel Sullivan has many talents: One need only look at the past few years, and his glorious productions of classics such as Ah, Wilderness!, and soon-to-be-classics such as Dinner With Friends, for evidence. But he has a particular knack for stage kisses. Hopeless romantic that I am, I remember these three most vividly: Lisa Emery and Michael Hayden in Far East (the kiss was sweet, tentative, proper); Cherry Jones and Gabriel Byrne in Broadway's A Moon for the Misbegotten (passionate, desperate, clinging); and Mary-Louise Parker and Ben Shenkman in Proof, which just opened at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 1.

Now, before the kiss, there's not much more than basic exposition: He'[...]