‘Eureka Day’ Review: Broadway Comedy Takes on the Vaccine Debate and Satirizes Private School Pieties
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “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 the audience at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre have been ushered into the world of this swaddlingly well-meaning institution through familiar signifiers of liberal best intentions.
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.
Longtime school booster Suzanne (Jessica Hecht) swans about, so full of empathy that she cannot sit still, in diaphanous hippie-by-way-of-Eileen Fisher dresses.
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