Eureka Day Broadway Tickets, News, Info & More
Wildly relevant and bitingly funny, Jonathan Spector’s play comes to MTC in an all-new production following an acclaimed London run. Eureka Day is a private California elementary school with a Board of Directors that values inclusion above all else – that is, until an outbreak of the mumps forces everyone in the community to reconsider the school’s liberal vaccine policy. As cases rise, the board realizes with horror that they’ve got to do what they swore they never would: make a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.
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The Perils of Parenting: EUREKA DAY, ANNIE, and RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR — Review
4 / 10
Jonathan Spector’s 2018 comedy Eureka Day mostly loses in its bright and bubbly Broadway premiere. The first monster it encounters is thematic. As with last season’s The Thanksgiving Play, which mocked a well-meaning elementary school drama teacher’s attempt to mount an even-handed history of the holiday, there are only so many laughs you can wring out of liberal cluelessness. Here, it’s the board members of a bougie California day school when faced with a mumps outbreak among its students. They’re the sort of people for whom things like “holding space” and “feeling seen” are paralyzing conundrums instead of useful frameworks in the fight for equity. The jokes at their expense start off strong but lose steam quickly, despite strong performances from a cast including Jessica Hecht and Thomas Middleditch.
In Eureka Day, the Jabs Are Verbal, Too
8 / 10
Hecht and Gray are excellent here and throughout, as is Shapiro’s whole company. They’re not clowning — though there’s a delightful wink of a moment in which Irwin’s Don waxes misty-eyed over the “actually quite subtle” mime work of a former colleague. Rather, they’re performing that crucial aspect of theater, its function as a space of civic practice, quite literally a place where we rehearse the hardest conversations, where we experiment with how to put together a community. In his script’s epigraph, Spector quotes from Eula Bliss’s On Immunity, where Bliss herself cites a doctor who describes a certain vaccine as “important … from a public health standpoint” but “not as critical from an individual point of view.” “In order for this to make sense,” writes Bliss, “one must believe that individuals are not part of the public.” It’s this cognitive dissonance, so widespread and so clamorous and so tragically American, that theater, by its very nature, is always addressing, and in Eureka Day that essential refutation takes on explicit and eloquent form.
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EUREKA DAY & The 92nd Street Y To Host Special Performance and Talkback
by A.A. Cristi - December 20, 2024
by A.A. Cristi - December 20, 2024
The 92nd Street Y has announced a performance of Eureka Day and post-performance conversation with the cast – Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz – moderated by Ruthie Fierberg.
Video: EUREKA DAY Celebrates Opening Night
by Joey Mervis - December 19, 2024
by Joey Mervis - December 19, 2024
Stars aligned earlier this week at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, where Eureka Day celebrated its opening night. Watch in this video as the cast and creative team chat more on opening night!
EUREKA DAY Extends Broadway Run
by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2024
by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2024
Manhattan Theatre Club has announced that the Broadway premiere of Eureka Day, a play by Jonathan Spector, directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro, has extended its run! Learn more here!
Photos: On the Red Carpet at EUREKA DAY Opening Night
by Bruce Glikas - December 18, 2024
by Bruce Glikas - December 18, 2024
Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector, directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro, is now officially open on Broadway. BroadwayWorld was there at opening night and you can check out photos from the red carpet here!
Photos: The Cast of EUREKA DAY Takes Opening Night Bows
by Bruce Glikas - December 17, 2024
by Bruce Glikas - December 17, 2024
Eureka Day, by Jonathan Spector and directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro, is now officially open on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Check out photos of the cast taking their opening night bows!
Review Roundup: EUREKA DAY Opens On Broadway
by A.A. Cristi - December 16, 2024
by A.A. Cristi - December 16, 2024
The Broadway premiere of Eureka Day, a new comedy from playwright Jonathan Spector, celebrates its opening night tonight in a new production from Anna D. Shapiro! Read the reviews!
Photos: EUREKA DAY Cast Walks the Red Carpet on Opening Night
by Bruce Glikas - December 16, 2024
by Bruce Glikas - December 16, 2024
Eureka Day, a play by Jonathan Spector, directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro, is now officially open on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Check out photos of the cast on the red carpet here!
Photos: EUREKA DAY is Now Playing on Broadway
by Stephi Wild - December 6, 2024
by Stephi Wild - December 6, 2024
All new production photos have been released for the Broadway premiere of Eureka Day, a play by Jonathan Spector, directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro. Check out the photos here!
Up on the Marquee: EUREKA DAY
by Jennifer Broski - December 3, 2024
by Jennifer Broski - December 3, 2024
Next up at Manhattan Theatre Club is Eureka Day, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. Check out new photos of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre marquee here!
Meet the Cast of EUREKA DAY, Beginning Previews Tonight on Broadway
by Stephi Wild - November 25, 2024
by Stephi Wild - November 25, 2024
Manhattan Theatre Club's Eureka Day, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, officially begins previews tonight, November 25. Meet the cast of Eureka Day here!
Interview: Jonathan Spector's EUREKA DAY Brings Timely Vaccine Debate to Broadway
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 10, 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 10, 2024
BroadwayWorld interviewed playwright Jonathan Spector about the Broadway debut of his play Eureka Day, starring Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, and more. Learn more about the play!
Video: EUREKA DAY Cast Gets Ready for Broadway
by Joey Mervis - November 5, 2024
by Joey Mervis - November 5, 2024
Up next at Manhattan Theatre Club is Jonathan Spector's Eureka Day, starring Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz. Watch as the cast tells us more about the new play in this video.
Photos: Manhattan Theatre Club's EUREKA DAY Cast Meets the Press
by Bruce Glikas - October 30, 2024
by Bruce Glikas - October 30, 2024
Manhattan Theatre Club is presenting Eureka Day, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. See photos of the company meeting the press here!
Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz Will Make Broadway Debut in EUREKA DAY
by Stephi Wild - October 2, 2024
by Stephi Wild - October 2, 2024
Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz (“Scandal,” “The Flash”) will make her Broadway debut in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Eureka Day, by Jonathan Spector, directed by Anna D. Shapiro.
Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht & More to Star in EUREKA DAY on Broadway
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 18, 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 18, 2024
The full cast has been revealed for the Broadway premiere of Eureka Day, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Anna D. Shapiro. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
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