EUREKA EVENING WITH PETER HOTEZ
Book-signing and performance of Tony Award-winning play.
Monday, October 6, 2025
6:30 - 10:00 pm
4th Wall Theatre Company
A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation
Join Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., renowned vaccinologist, and the artists of 4th Wall Theatre Company for an unforgettable evening of cross-disciplinary conversation. Only 98 tickets available for this exclusive VIP celebration of artistic excellence and scientific expertise.
4th Wall Theatre Company is producing the Regional Premiere of EUREKA DAY - a comic drama which puts the vaccine debate in the spotlight.
Dr. Hotez is celebrating the release of his new book, Science Under Siege, a call to arms and a road map for dismantling the forces of anti-science.
Copies of Science Under Siege may be purchased in advance with your play ticket and will be available for pickup and signing at the event.
Order of Events
6:30pm Pre-Show Reception and Book Signing with Dr. Hotez
7:30pm Performance of EUREKA DAY
9:15pm Break
9:30pm Remarks from Dr. Hotez
10:00pm Event concludes
About the Book
From pandemics to the climate crisis, humanity faces tougher challenges than ever. Whether it’s the health of our people or the health of our planet, we know we are on an unsustainable path. But our efforts to effectively tackle these existential crises are now hampered by a common threat: politically and ideologically motivated opposition to science.
Peter J. Hotez and Michael E. Mann are two of the most respected and well-known scientists in the world and have spent the last twenty years on the front lines of the battle to convey accurate, reliable, and trustworthy information about science in the face of determined and nihilistic opposition.
In this powerful manifesto, they reveal the five main forces threatening science: plutocrats, pros, petrostates, phonies, and the press. It is a call to arms and a road map for dismantling the forces of anti-science. Armed with the information in this book, we can be empowered to promote scientific truths, shine light on channels of dark money, dismantle the corporations poisoning the planet, and ultimately avert disaster.
About the Play
The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. In weekly meetings Eureka Day’s five board members develop and update policy to preserve this culture of inclusivity, reaching decisions only by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?
“Critic’s Pick! Jonathan Spector’s lively portrait of a debate over mandatory vaccinations is the perfect play for our age of disagreement. …characters who had seemed so easy to ridicule as stereotypes acquire a substance and specificity that inhibit both derision and facile categorization. It becomes possible to identify with each of these people…no matter what your own feelings about vaccination are. This means that EUREKA DAY…is not only one of the funniest plays to open this year, it is one of the saddest.” —The New York Times.
“…Spector…extract[s] comic gold from the little tugs-of-war for control among the members of the committee. But…this comedy of manners yields to a serious probing of interpersonal responsibility and the limits of consideration. …Even as it stakes out a moral position on its subject, EUREKA DAY avoids the kind of lording dismissal that, in too much of our social-media lives, has become epidemic.” —Time Out New York.
Planning Your Visit
Located inside Spring Street Studios
Spring Street Studios, 1824 Spring Street, Studio 101, Houston TX 77007
4th Wall Theatre Company is part of the Sawyer Yards Creative Campus in the heart of Houston’s historic First Ward and Arts District Houston. Our building, Spring Street Studios, houses 75 mixed-use workspaces and a public gallery. 4th Wall is located on the first floor of the building in the southeast corner in Studio #101.
Free Parking
Free parking is available in three lots surrounding the Spring Street Studios building as shown on the map and as depicted in the welcome video. *If you require an accessible, ramped entry to the building, make sure to use the back parking lot (blue on map) and enter through the back door to the building.
Contact
Box Office Hours: Monday-Friday 10AM-5PM
Email info@4thwalltheatreco.com or call (832) 767-4991
Note that our small staff is generally able to respond more quickly to email inquiries than phone calls.
Directions
Special Travel Notice
There are several railroads near Spring Street Studios. Plan on arriving at least 15 minutes early to all performances to allow for the possibility of getting stuck behind a train. There is no entry to the theatre once the performance starts.
Directions From I-10
Take exit 767B toward Taylor Street going south. Turn left at the signal onto Spring Street. Spring Street Studios will be on your left.
Directions From I-45 North
Continue toward Downtown, then take exit 47B toward Houston Avenue. Continue on Houston Avenue then take a right onto Spring Street. Spring Street Studios will be on your right.
Directions using Metro
The #44 bus runs North-South, and stops (in both directions) three blocks east of the theatre at the intersection of Houston Avenue. and Spring Street.
The #85 bus runs East-West, and stops (in both directions) ten blocks south of the theatre at the intersection of Washington Avenue. and Silver Street.