“Eureka Day,” is so brilliantly yoked to the current American moment—its flighty politics, its deadly folly—that it makes you want to jump out of your skin.
-Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker

“Eureka Day,” is not only one of the funniest plays to open this year, it is one of the saddest.
-Ben Brantley, New York Times

On Friday May 22nd at 8:00pm, Play-PerView will reunite the original Off-Broadway company of Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day under the direction of Adrienne Campbell-Holt, following its extended sold-out run last summer. Featuring Tina Benko (“New Amsterdam,” Scenes from a Marriage, Top Girls), Elizabeth Carter, KK Moggie (Passage, Daphne’s Dive), Thomas Jay Ryan (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Crucible), and Brian Wiles (“Manifest,” “Billions”).

In Eureka Day, Carina has just enrolled her son at Eureka Day School in Berkeley, CA, where all decisions are made by consensus, diversity and inclusion are valued, and vaccinations are a matter of personal choice. As a freshman member of the private school’s board of directors, she is thrown into the deep end when a mumps outbreak hits the school, forcing parents to choose between their own personal beliefs and what’s best for the community.

This reading, presented by special arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions and Dramatists Play Service, will benefit Colt Coeur and No Kid Hungry. The online event is ticketed with access starting at $5 and available at play-perview.com.

EUREKA DAY premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, CA in April 2018, where it received all of the region’s new play awards: Glickman Award, Theatre Bay Area Award, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, and Rella Lossy Award.