Review: Libs Own Themselves in the Sharp and Infectiously Funny ‘Eureka Day’

“Eureka Day” on Broadway Tests the Limits of “Wokeism”

The late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.” In the play “Eureka Day,” which opened this week on Broadway, that notion is up for vitriolic debate. Set in a posh and exceedingly “woke” private school in Berkeley, California, where all pronouns are gender neutral and the dropdown menu for self-identification is pages long, this biting comedy depicts a community …

Review: Libs Own Themselves in the Sharp and Infectiously Funny ‘Eureka Day’

Manhattan Theatre Club’s new dramedy takes place in the Eureka Day elementary school library, located in Berkeley, California and attended by the spawn of well-to-do liberals. Colors are bright, chairs cheerfully plastic and neat signs demarcate shelves dedicated to “social justice” and “fiction.” The longer you stare at Todd Rosenthal’s vibrant set, though, the more you suspect a visual pun’s afoot. What fills the eye? Countless spines of books…

Tumult Over Vaccines Bedevils a Well-Heeled Private School in the Whip-Smart 'Eureka Day'

The pandemic hovers over this comedy like a storm cloud.

Review: In ‘Eureka Day’ on Broadway, idealism at a private elementary school only goes so far

NEW YORK — Among myriad pandemic horrors was the Zoom school board meeting, a soul-sucking collection of faces in little boxes, raising digital hands and arguing over who is on mute. Often, an entirely different and far more salacious meeting was taking place in the chat channel. One such hilariously unhinged chat appears for a while on a digital screen in the new Broadway production of Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day.” It’s the best moment in a …

‘Eureka Day’ Broadway Review: Who Says Vaccines Are No Laughing Matter?

Quick, think of something really humorous about vaccinations. No? Me neither, but 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 […]

‘Eureka Day’ Review: Broadway Comedy Takes on the Vaccine Debate and Satirizes Private School Pieties

“You can always spot a Eureka Day kid, because at soccer games, they’re the ones who cheer when the other team scores.” So says Carina (Amber Gray), the parent of a new enrollee at Berkeley’s Eureka Day school, explaining what had been her thinking in placing her son there. To this point, like-minded members of […]