Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway debut run of Jonathan Spector's Eureka Day has found its cast. Performances begin November 25 ahead of a December 16 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Starring will be Zoë Chao (If You Were the Last), Amber Gray (Hadestown), Jessica Hecht (Summer, 1976), Bill Irwin (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley).
Anna D. Shapiro is directing, leading a creative team that's to be announced.
The play, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2019 and made a London debut in 2022, centers on a private elementary school in California that is forced to reconsider its liberal vaccine policy following an outbreak of the mumps. MTC's production, which will be a new staging, is being produced by special arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions (which co-presented the 2022 London run), Wagner Johnson Productions, and Seaview.
MTC will follow up Eureka Day on Broadway with Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, a transfer of the tribute concert that played a limited run in London's West End last year. Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga are both returning to Broadway to reprise their performances from the concert's London bow.
