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Broadway In Chicago is pleased to announce Chicago’s acclaimed TimeLine Theatre Company is returning to the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (following previous hit productions OSLO and THE LEHMAN TRILOGY) with this sharply funny Tony Award®-winning hit satire of progressivism, parenting, and public health. EUREKA DAY centers on a Berkeley, California school where every decision is made by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak hits, the community’s culture of inclusiveness spirals into chaos. EUREKA DAY will run January 13 – February 22, 2026. Opening Night is January 21 at 7:00 p.m. Casting is still to be announced.

At Berkeley, California’s ultra-progressive Eureka Day School, every decision is made by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak hits, the school's carefully cultivated culture of inclusiveness spirals into chaos. As parents and board members clash over vaccines, personal freedoms, and viral misinformation, a community built on open-minded ideals implodes. Winner of a 2025 Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Play, this Chicago premiere presented by TimeLine Theatre Company tackles one of the defining questions of our time: how do you build consensus when no one can agree on the truth?

Acclaimed as “a powder keg of debate, liberal niceties, and hidden agendas” by The Daily Beast, EUREKA DAY is that rare combination—a “gaspingly funny” (New York Magazine) satire that captures the absurdity of modern discourse in ways that are intelligent, insightful, and real.

EUREKA DAY had its world premiere at Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, Calif., in 2018. The play premiered Off-Broadway in 2019 and at the Old Vic in London in 2022, before returning to New York City and Broadway via Manhattan Theatre Club in 2024. The Broadway production was nominated for two Tony Awards® and won for Best Revival of a Play. It also recently won the 2025 Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.

TICKET INFORMATION
EUREKA DAY is part of Broadway In Chicago’s upcoming season, which is on sale now. Individual tickets for EUREKA DAY will go on sale at a later date. Tickets are available now for groups of 10 or more by calling Broadway In Chicago Group Sales at (312) 977-1710 or emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For more  information, visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com .

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Jonathan Spector (Playwright, EUREKA DAY) is a Tony Award®-winning playwright based in Northern California, whose work has been produced on and off Broadway, regionally, and internationally. His plays include Eureka Day (Tony Award® for Best Revival of a Play, 2025 Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play, Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Revival, New York Critics Circle Award nomination, WhatsOnStage Award nomination, The New York Times Critics' Pick); This Much I Know (Edgerton Award, Glickman Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award); Birthright; Best Available (Elizabeth George Commission); and Siesta Key. His work has been produced with Manhattan Theater Club, The Old Vic, Sonia Friedman Productions, Aurora Theater, Marin Theater Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Hampstead, Theater J, Asolo Rep, Syracuse Stage, Mosaic Theater, Colt Couer and Miami New Drama, among others. He is currently working on commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout and La Jolla Playhouse.

Lili-Anne Brown (Director, EUREKA DAY), a Chicago South Side native, works as a director, actor and educator, and has performed in, directed, and produced many award-winning shows in Chicago and nationally. Recent directing credits include The Color Purple, The Nacirema Society…, School Girls, and the world premieres of Ike Holter’s I Hate It Here and Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre); Two Trains Running (The Acting Company, National Tour); Dreamgirls (McCarter Theater and Goodspeed Musicals); FELA! (Olney Theater); Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre); Ain’t No Mo’ (Woolly Mammoth and Baltimore CenterStage); Waitress, Rent, and The Color Purple (The Muny); Once on This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Acoustic Rooster... (Kennedy Center and National Tour); and Put Your House in Order (La Jolla Playhouse). She is the former Artistic Director of Bailiwick Chicago, where she focused programming on Chicago-premiere musicals and new play development with resident playwrights. She has received two Helen Hayes Awards, five Jeff Awards, two BTA awards and one African American Arts Alliance Award for excellence in directing. She is an inaugural recipient of the Walder Foundation’s Platform Award and a 2021 recipient of the 3Arts Award for Theatre. She is a member of SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and a graduate of Northwestern University.

ABOUT TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY
TimeLine Theatre Company, recipient of the prestigious 2016 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, was founded in April 1997 with a mission to present stories inspired by history that connect with today's social and political issues. Currently celebrating its 28th season, TimeLine has presented 92 productions, including 14 world premieres and 42 Chicago premieres, and launched the Living History Education Program and TimeLine South summer arts program, which bring the company's mission to life for students in Chicago Public Schools and beyond. Recipient of the Alford- Axelson Award for Nonprofit Managerial Excellence and the Richard Goodman Strategic Planning Award from the Association for Strategic Planning, TimeLine has received 62 Jeff Awards, including an award for Outstanding Production 11 times.

The company departed its longtime home on Wellington Avenue in August 2024 and moved into new administrative offices at 5539 N. Broadway, Ste. B, a few blocks north of the site of its future new home, located at 5035 N. Broadway in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Construction is ongoing on that site, where plans feature an intimate black box theater seating up to 250 audience members, expanded area for the immersive lobby experiences that are a TimeLine hallmark, new opportunities for education and engagement, room to allow audience members to arrive early and stay late for theatergoing experiences that extend far beyond the stage, and more.

TimeLine is led by Artistic Director PJ Powers, Executive Director Mica Cole, and Board President Thaddeus J. Malik. TimeLine Company members are Tyla Abercrumbie, Will Allan, Nick Bowling, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Behzad Dabu, Charles Andrew Gardner, Lara Goetsch, Juliet Hart, Anish Jethmalani, Mildred Marie Langford, Mechelle Moe, David Parkes, Ron OJ Parson, PJ Powers, Maren Robinson, and Helen Young.

Major corporate, government and foundation donors providing season support via TimeLine’s Annual Fund include Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, Bayless Family Foundation, Carol Oppenheim and Jerome Lamet Charitable Fund, Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Polk Bros. Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. TimeLine also acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

For more information, visit timelinetheatre.com, or Facebook or Instagram (@TimeLineTheatre on both platforms).

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