‘Eureka Day’ Sets Broadway Cast: Zoë Chao, Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht, Bill Irwin & Thomas Middleditch

Greg Evans

19 June 2024 at 10:12 am·1-min read

Zoë Chao of Peacock’s sci-fi rom-com If You Were the Last and Hadestown‘s Amber Gray will be among the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway staging of Jonathan Spector’s new comedy Eureka Day in December, producers have announced.

In addition to Chao and Gray, the full cast of Eureka Day will include Jessica Hecht (Tony Award nominee for Summer, 1976), Bill Irwin (Tony Award winner for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and Thomas Middleditch (Emmy Award nominee for Silicon Valley.

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Eureka Day will begin previews on Monday, November 25, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and open on Monday, December 16.

The cast was announced by MTC’s Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director and Chris Jennings, Executive Director.

As previously announced, the Broadway premiere of the play will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro (The Minutes, This Is Our Youth, among many others).

The all-new production follows an acclaimed London run. The Broadway creative team for Eureka Day will be announced at a later date.

The 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.”

The play is produced by special arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions, Wagner Johnson Productions, and Seaview

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