Eureka Day
Opening Night: December 16, 2024
Theater: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Website: www.manhattantheatreclub.com
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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December 16, 2024
Shapiro’s production has been majorly and satisfyingly scaled up for Broadway.
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December 16, 2024
Excellently directed by Anna D. Shapiro, “Eureka Day” remains well-paced, hilarious and surprisingly undated
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December 16, 2024
The comedy isn’t played at or played up. It spills out organically, messily, even upsettingly.
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December 16, 2024
Playwright Jonathan Spector has done us all a favor and molded one of the most divisive, inane, grotesque and newly, resurgent issues of the day and polished it into a shiny, insightful and damn funny little gem so that all of us can ogle and ponder and reconsider just how in the name of Jonas Salk did we get here.
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December 16, 2024
I couldn’t bring myself to care much about the onstage antics after this, nor were any laughs fresher or louder. Parents will likely have greater laughs of recognition, but I found myself skimming over other tabs left open in my mind.
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December 16, 2024
“Eureka Day” is a cleverly staged social satire, one that earns enough goodwill to buoy it even as certain of its flourishes don’t quite land.
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December 16, 2024
Eureka Day produces plenty of laughter, but it’s hollow laughter of a certain type of righteousness that is increasingly useless as manners and conventions break down.
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December 16, 2024
Eureka Day is often very funny, but it also contributes valuably to that discourse. Even as it needles the left, it offers an invigorating shot in the arm.
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Overlapping dialogue among the board members and increasingly cruel comments, projected onto the set, from parents on both sides of the debate make for a chaotic mess that’s also one of the funniest moments on Broadway right now.
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[Eureka Day] finds refreshing humor, and some poignance, in subject matter that has proven burdensome for all of us.
READ THE REVIEWDecember 17, 2024
Manhattan Theatre Club and director Shapiro give Eureka Day, in every aspect, the tiptop Broadway production it deserves.
READ THE REVIEWDecember 16, 2024
The rest of Eureka Day… doesn’t quite live up to that hilarious segment, projected on the rear wall of the set, that produces a virtual firestorm of laughs. The actors onstage, mostly reduced to making horrified faces, might as well not even be there.
READ THE REVIEWDecember 17, 2024
It’s a credit to the playwright and the production that “Eureka Day” can be so humorous, and yet smoothly shift gears to provide insight into each of the characters, and wind up a realistically plotted and touching story.
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