City Theatre | Tony Award Winning Eureka Day!

    City Theatre continues its 2025/2026 season with Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector, directed by Adil Mansoor, about an ultra-progressive California school who finds themselves in a bind when a mumps outbreak exposes varying opinions on...everything.

    "I am so excited for our production of Jonathan Spector's Eureka Day!” said director Adil Mansoor. “The design team has been inspired by local libraries, elementary school music teachers, and our favorite children's books as we imagine the world of our play. And I cannot wait for this incredible cast to bring these deeply hilarious and all too familiar characters to life. I feel so lucky to be working with this team on an urgent and thoughtful project that has me chuckling every time I read it.”

    Eureka Day premiered in 2018 and explores the challenges of finding common ground in a polarized world. The play has received rave reviews, productions around the globe, and numerous awards, including a 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for its Broadway production and recognition from Drama Desk awards and the Drama League.

    The cast includes Daina Griffith, Max Pavel, John Shepard, Jalina McClarin, and Desiree Mee Jung. The creative team includes: scenic design by Sasha Jin Schwartz, costume design by Jaime Ericson, lighting design by Xuewei (Eva) Hu, sound design and original music by Stewart Blackwood, projection design by Kolton Cotton, and intimacy by Tonya Lynn. The production is stage managed by Taylor Meszaros.

    City Theatre is partnering with several community organizations in conjunction with the production including  Allegheny County Immunization Coalition, Casa San Jose, and Literacy Pittsburgh. Patrons are encouraged to meet these community partners prior to the performance on Thursday, March 12th for “City Connects Night” (discount available) or join the post-show talkback on Sunday, March 15th featuring Dr. Amesh Adalja who’s work focuses on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity

During the run of Eureka Day, City Theatre will be announcing its 2026/27 season, with subscriptions on sale and available at every performance.

ABOUT EUREKA DAY

By Jonathan Spector

Directed by Adil Mansoor

March 7 – 29, 2026

Main Stage

Fresh from Broadway (though detoured from DC – Google it ), this all too timely, bitingly funny comedy takes place during several board meetings at an ultra-progressive California school proud of its inclusivity and commitment to consensus – at least until a mumps outbreak reveals varying views (like, everyone’s) on vaccination. In “one of the funniest plays to open [all] year” (The New York Times) parents dance the line of advocating for their children while trying not to offend...anyone.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

March 7 - 29

Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. and/or 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m.

Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. and/or 5:30 p.m.

Sundays at 2:00 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.

For a complete listing of show times, please visit CityTheatreCompany.org or call 412-431-2489 (CITY).

PRESS & OPENING NIGHT

Friday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m.

SPECIAL EVENTS AND ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES:

Saturday, March 7 at 5:30pm – RAD Pay What You Want Performance

Sunday, March 8 at 7:30pm – RAD Pay What You Want Performance

Thursday, March 12 at 7:30pm – City Connects Night

Friday, March 13 at 7:30pm – Opening Night

Sunday, March 15 at 2:00pm – Post Show Talkback

Friday, March 20 at 7:30pm – Greenroom Art and Afterparty

Saturday, March 21 at 1:00pm – RAD Pay What You Want Performance

Saturday, March 21 at 5:30pm – ASL | Open Caption

Sunday, March 22 at 2:00pm – Audio Description | Post-Show Talkback

Wednesday, March 25 at 1:00pm – Open Caption

Sunday, March 29 at 2:00pm – Open Caption

BOX OFFICE INFORMATION:

412.431.CITY (2489) or CityTheatreCompany.org

Discounts for special performances and groups can be found at CityTheatreCompany.org/promotions.

City Theatre is proud to partner with the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD) on RAD Pass, a County-wide initiative that allows free access to events and performances year-round. Tickets will be available to select performances of Eureka Day by visiting RADPASS.org (tickets not yet available).

WHERE:

City Theatre Main Stage

1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203 (South Side)

Port Authority bus routes: 48, 51, 54, 81, 83

PARKING:

Patron parking is available in the lot across from the City Theatre entrance (1317 Bingham Street) for $10, subject to availability.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

 Jonathan Spector (Playwright) is a playwright based in Oakland, California. His plays include: Eureka Day (NY Times Critic’s Pick, Glickman Award, Theater Bay Area Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Rella Lossy Award), This Much I Know (Edgerton New Play Award), Best Available (Elizabeth George Commission), In From The Cold (Global Age Prize), Siesta Key, and Good. Better. Best. Bested. His work has been produced at theaters including Colt Coeur, Aurora Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Mosaic Theater, InterAct Theatre, The State Theatre of South Australia, Custom Made Theatre, and Just Theater. He has developed work with Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Underground, South Coast Rep, Portland Stage, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, SF Playhouse, and Crowded Fire among others. Jonathan is a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, a MacDowell Fellow, and a former Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation. He is currently under commission from La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Theatre Company, and Manhattan Theatre Club. He is an alumnus of New College of Florida.

 Adil Mansoor (Director) is a Pittsburgh-based theater director and educator centering queer folks and people of color. He has developed new work with The Public, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Playwrights' Center, Mercury Store, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and others. Directing projects include Daddies by Paul Kruse (Audible), Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Hatch Arts Collective), Kentucky by Leah Nanako Winkler (Pittsburgh Playhouse), and Plano by Will Arbery (Quantum). He often works as a dance dramaturg, having collaborated with choreographers Slowdanger, Staycee Pearl, Dahlia Nayar, and Maree ReMalia. Mansoor’s solo performance Amm(i)gone was produced Off-Broadway by PlayCo, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) as part of a national tour. Amm(i)gone is a National Performance Network Project co-commissioned by KST and The Theater Offensive. Mansoor is a founding member of Pittsburgh’s Hatch Arts Collective and the former Artistic Director of Dreams of Hope, an LGBTQA+ youth arts organization. He was part of the inaugural Artist Caucus gathered by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf, St. Louis Rep, and Woolly Mammoth. He was a Sundance Art of Practice Fellow, a Gerri Kay New Voices Fellow with Quantum Theater,  and received the 2024 Emerging Artist Carol R. Brown Award. Mansoor holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.adilmansoor.com/

 Daina Michelle Griffith is thrilled to be back at City Theatre! Past City Theatre credits: The Revolutionists (2018), The White Chip (2018), The Last Match (2016), Speak American (2009). Daina was most recently seen onstage at barebones in God of Carnage, and behind the table as Associate Director of A Christmas Story at Pittsburgh Public. Regional/NYC: The Gateway, Human Race Theatre, Kansas City Starlight, Merrimack Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, heXtc. Locally: PPT, Quantum, barebones, The REP, Off The Wall, Front Porch, PCLO, PMT, PICT. Select TV/Film: "Outsiders" (WGN), "Manhunt" (CBS, Spectrum), "Archive 81" (Netflix), The Dark Knight Rises, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Hollidaysburg, Tender, Happiest Season, Unsinkable, and the upcoming Young Men staring David Duchovny. Daina was named the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Performer of the Year in 2014, is the founder of Griffith Coaching Acting Studio, will be directing Working for Front Porch in April, and feels super lucky to be spending time in a space with Adil and this amazing group of artists! dainagriffith.com @daina__griffith

 Max Pavel has performed with Barebones, Hatch Arts, Quantum, PICT, and now City Theatre. Notable roles: Billy Baird in The Sound Inside and The Devil in Witch. Producing credits: Orphans and Witch.  Film/TV credits: A Man Called Otto, American Rust, Outsiders. Proud member of IATSE and SAG. Best coffee in PGH - The Garden Cafe

 John Shepard has performed in a number of productions for City Theatre. Most recently as Jerry in Downstairs. For the past four years he has played Adult Ralph in the Public’s A Christmas Story. John has also been seen in many shows for Quantum, REP and PICT. He was named the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Performer of the Year for his performance of Willy Loman at the REP. He has also directed for the REP and Quantum. John has also performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at many of the country’s major regional theatres. He has worked in films and TV and the upcoming web series, “The Human, Will.” His book “Auditioning and Acting for the Camera” is used across the country. He taught at Point Park for 20 years and served as chair of its theatre department for 10 of those years.

 Jalina McClarin (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who can’t seem to dial in her capacity or her interests. She is incredibly grateful to Adil for trusting her with this role. You can catch Jalina: acting, devising, dancing, drawing, wrestling her pals, falling in love, writing, climbing, biking, backpacking, thrifting, doing improv, flexing in the mirror, and crying at the D&D table. None of us are free until all of us are free. 

 Desirée Mee Jung (she/her) is thrilled to be making her City Theatre debut! Notable theatre credits include: Vietgone (Alley Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Denver Center); Sense & Sensibility (South Coast Rep); POTUS u/s (Geffen Playhouse), Richard III, Comedy of Errors, Pericles (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Measure STILL for Measure (world premiere Boston Court Pasadena); All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within); Letters of Suresh, Gloria, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide (Curious Theatre); As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Henry IV Part I, Cymbeline (Antaeus Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); The Bonesetter’s Daughter (world premiere Book-It Rep). Film/TV: NCIS, Pluribus, The Winchesters, Monsters: Lyle & Eric Menendez, Death Name.