Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz has joined the cast of Broadway's upcoming Eureka Day, which will be the film actor's Broadway debut. Yakura-Kurtz is stepping in for the previously announced Zoë Chao, who has departed the production due to scheduling issues.
Performances of the Jonathan Spector-penned play, a Manhattan Theatre Club production, begin November 25 ahead of a December 16 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Yakura-Kurtz joins a previously announced cast that includes 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.
