‘Eureka Day’ Broadway Review: How Concerned Parents Text Their Way to Hell

Jonathan Spector’s wild new comedy delivers a few more choice words on diversity, equity and inclusion

0982 - Thomas Middleditch, Amber Gray, Bill Irwin, Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz, and Jessica Hecht in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. ©Jeremy Daniel
"Eureka Day" (Credit: Jeremy Daniel)

One of the funniest scenes on Broadway right now is not spoken, sung or danced. It is written. You have to read it on the back stage wall, and it is absolutely hilarious as well as scary. The scene appears in Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day,” which opened Monday at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after a run in London. One can only imagine how the British laughed at these politically correct American vegan characters who try with all due sincerity to negotiate their way semantically around raising, teaching and taking care of kids in the world’s most liberal bastion: Berkeley, California.

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