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‘Eureka Day’ Review: Broadway Comedy Takes on the Vaccine Debate and Satirizes Private School Pieties
Bill Irwin, Jessica Hecht and Thomas Middleditch star in Jonathan Spector's comedy about a debate over vaccines as a liberal private school.
The school library where the executive committee meets is bedecked with a “Berkeley Stands United Against Hate” poster and images of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michelle Obama, and Maya Angelou. Written by Jonathan Spector — a playwright based in California’s East Bay area, where the show is set — and directed by Anna D. Shapiro, “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. “Eureka Day” doesn’t have an answer for how to fix this sorry state of affairs, but that it poses the question makes it a play with an unusual amount on its mind, and a fine night of theater that will fuel post-show conversation long after the curtain falls.
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