Eureka Day, the needle-sharp Manhattan Theatre Club comedy by Jonathan Spector that opened to rave reviews this week, has been extended two weeks at Broadway‘s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and will now run through February 2, 2025.
Directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro (Broadway: August: Osage County) and featuring a terrific cast of Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz, Eureka Day opened on December 16 to ecstatic reviews, and box office business seems to be picking up: According to the most recent Broadway League statistics, Eureka Day filled about 85% of seats the Friedman last week, up by 10% from the preview weeks.
The extension was announced by MTC’s Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director and Chris Jennings, Executive Director.
The official synopsis: “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.”
Eureka Day is presented by special arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions, Wagner Johnson Productions, and Seaview Productions.
MTC has announced that on Wednesday, January 8, following the 7:00 pm performance of Eureka Day, there will be a Sloan panel discussion that will address the medical and social impacts of vaccination and public health policy and other scientific themes in the play.