Eureka Day
Five years after its memorable Off Broadway run, Jonathan Spector's award-winning dark comedy, about a mumps outbreak at an ultraliberal elementary school, arrives on Broadway in an all-new production directed by Anna D. Shapiro for Manhattan Theatre Club. The first half mines comic gold from the tugs-of-war for control among the members of the school's executive committee; in the second act, this comedy of manners yields to a serious probing of interpersonal responsibility and the limits of consideration. The formidable cast of five comprises Bill Irwin, Jessica Hecht, Amber Gray, Zoë Chao and Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch.