Buzz for EUREKA DAY
4th Wall Theatre Company’s production of EUREKA DAY by Jonathan Spector opened on September 19 and must close on October 11, 2025. You can learn more about the show and reserve tickets at this link. Photo by Gabriella Nissen.
IN THE PRESS
Broadway World Review: "4th Wall Theatre Company always seems to be an ‘actor’s theater,’ and they continue this streak with this play. The cast of six folks is all wonderfully integrated as an ensemble, and they just feel like wholly realized people every second of the performance. …. You could just call EUREKA DAY a fun and lively comedy and be done with it. It’s excellently produced by Fourth Wall - acting is great, tech is a notch above anybody else in town, and the fast-paced show will be an audience pleaser from the start. But there’s something deeper happening here, and something that gets under your skin (ironically, like a vaccine). There is an urgency to this debate about children and vaccines that seems to encapsulate everything happening in our world today. No matter where you fall, you sort of feel attacked. It’s discomforting, even though it makes you laugh. That’s the part that will leave with you, and you will take that home long after the bows. It’s a wonderful credit to the power of art to feel so relevant and so essential to making us talk with each other."
Houston Press Review: "How prescient is Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day, now rollicking and roiling at 4th Wall Theatre Company. And how present!"
New York Times Feature: "In this comedy by Jonathan Spector, a mumps outbreak forces board members at a crunchy, cosseted private school to square the ideal of respecting each parent’s opinion, no matter their stance on vaccination, with the need to protect all of the children."
Houston Press Artist Interview: "[Director Jennifer Dean]stresses that 4th Wall is not trying to tell the audience what to believe, "We're trying to present this situation and how these people work to try and solve the problem in a way that everybody's happy until you realize that's not possible."
Broadway World Artist Interview: “Jennifer Dean, Artistic Director of 4th Wall Theatre Co., brings a keen eye for both timely storytelling and innovative theatrical craft to the company’s latest production, Eureka Day. The play delves into contemporary debates around community, public health, and personal choice—all framed with humor, heart, and sharp social commentary.”
AUDIENCE RESPONSE
Very timely (you’ll hear that a thousand times) and smart (amazing social satire) but accessible, and funny, and very entertaining as well. The Zoom meeting message war was priceless!
– Gene
The cast was exceptional as was the direction.
– Susan
Very sharp writing and well acted. Great take on where we are as a society on this subject.
– Joseph