Get Eureka Day tickets and see the latest production of the acclaimed new comedy featuring an all-star cast. Amber Gray (Tony Award nominee for Hadestown), Jessica Hecht (Tony Award nominated for A View from the Bridge and Summer, 1976), Bill Irwin (Old Hats), and Thomas Middleditch (Emmy Award nominee for Silicon Valley) co-star in an award-winning comedy about school politics, progressive ideals, and...vaccines.
Experience Eureka Day on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County) directs this new play making its Broadway premiere. Following smash hit runs in London and San Francisco, Eureka Day follows the politics and personalities of a selective, private California elementary school.
At Eureka Day, the Board of Directors values inclusion above all else — until a case of the mumps forces the entire community to reconsider the school’s progressive vaccine policy. As cases rise, the board realizes with outrage that they’ll have to, finally and funnily, come to a decision that is impossible to please everyone.
Written before COVID, the play continues to be ahead of its time — and hilarious as a school navigates a bumpy path forward. Audiences will see reflections of modern society, sometimes in alarming but always in uproarious ways. At Eureka Day, as in life, the personal gets political pretty quickly.
The play has enjoyed many laudatory reviews. Earning four stars in London Theatre, Spector’s “sharply comic and fascinatingly prescient play” traces “rich dramatic terrain and is incredibly funny.” Evening Standard wrote in a four-star review that the play is “a needle-sharp comedy that packs a smart and timely punch.”
Eureka Day tickets are on sale on New York Theatre Guide.
Children under 5 are not permitted in the theatre.
No weapons permitted on the premises. No outside food or beverages, electric scooters, e-bikes, or battery-powered transportation devices, except when medically necessary.
All items are subject to inspection. Anything brought into the theatre must fit on your lap or completely under your seat without blocking any aisles.
The use of cameras, cell phones, and other recording devices during the show is strictly prohibited by law, except when used for accessibility services.
1hr 40min. No intermission.
November 25th, 2024
January 19th, 2025
By: Jonathan Spector
Director: Anna D. Shapiro
Producer: Manhattan Theatre Club
Cast list: Jessica Hecht (as Suzanne), Thomas Middleditch (as Eli), Amber Gray (as Carina), Bill Irwin (as Don), Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz (as Meiko)
Sets: Todd Rosenthal
Costumes: Clint Ramos
Lighting: Jen Schriever
Sound: Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen
Other info: Original music by Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen, projection design by David Bengali, intimacy and sensitivity coordination by Ann C. James, vocal coaching by Gigi Buffington
Elevator access, wheelchair access, assisted listening devices, on-demand closed captioning, open captioning, audio description, Braille and large print Playbills
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Jonathan Spector, based in Oakland, California, makes his Broadway debut with this play, which won the Glickman Award and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award.
Eureka Day is playing at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The theatre is located at 261 West 47th Street, New York, 10036.
The running time of Eureka Day is 1hr 40min. No intermission.
See Eureka Day play on Broadway. A new comedy following multiple hit runs, Eureka Day in New York comes to Manhattan Theatre Club this fall.
Book tickets for Eureka Day on New York Theatre Guide.
Tickets for Eureka Day start at $51.
Tony winner Anna D. Shaprio, who was also Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company from 2014 to 2021, stages this Broadway premiere.
An age recommendation has yet to be finalized, but all Broadway audiences regardless of show must be four and over.
The play earned raves in its Bay Area and then London run, where most recently it garnered four-star reviews in The Telegraph, Evening Standard, and Times. “Hysterical,” Time Out wrote.
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