Jonathan Spector

Eureka Day playwright, @jspector.bsky.social, in the Kenneth Cole Ready Flex Tux and Futurepod Leather Lace-Up Oxford on @thetonyawards.bsky.social red carpet before his win for Best Revival of a Play.

📷: Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions

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Remarkably, this is the same person four years ago and now.

Interestingly, the literal meaning of the Latin term habeas corpus is “you should have the body.”

Heartbroken.

And as evidenced by my depressing quotes in this story…feeling pretty grim about the future of our Bay Area theater ecosystem.

The sequel to the Scopes Monkey trial just dropped.

Eureka Day
May 29 – June 28, 2026 at The Huntington Theatre

Written by Jonathan Spector

Directed by Margot Bordelon

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

that Schumer believes Republicans will have a change of heart when things get really bad shows he is incapable of understanding how bad they are right now

This is bone-chilling.

One thing you really see every day is the different risk appetites between MAGA-era Republicans and Democrats. Basically compulsive, reckless, dangerous constant risk-seeking, versus almost comical levels of risk-aversion.

Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.

It feels like a metric of something, and not a good one, that at a moment like this virtually no one in the Oscar telecast has said anything remotely political

Probably fitting that Trump quoted Napoleon last week, as his wanton destruction of alliances and our government will likely be looked back on by historians as an instance of catastrophic "F*ck Around and Find Out" to rival Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Eureka Day Joins Kennedy Center Cancellations Following Trump Takeover A performance featuring the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. has also been removed from the organization's schedule, with both productions citing financial circumstances.

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I'm more curious what percentage of their readership is old enough to get the "Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?" reference.

If there ever was a time for a revival of The Designated Mourner…

Trump and “voters” nominally are the easiest targets for blame and yet to me, I will never not be the most mad at Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats for attempting to “move on” or “do a unity” instead of doing the hard but critical work of securing our government and preventing authoritarianism.

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Friends in NYC, today is the LAST DAY to register as a Democrat online so you can vote in the June primary against Eric Adams! Please do it now!

The shortest summary of what we’re witnessing is that the right lost a decades-long ideological battle over the proper size of government, and then, instead of moving on, decided to impose their will criminally.

Might be way off base, but I'm starting to think that stewing the brains of 25-30% of a population in a 24/7 far right propaganda network for 20 years isn't the healthiest thing for a democracy.

Who the f*ck is this for??? The problem isn’t we don’t have laws. The problem is they just ignore them. That won’t be solved with a symbolic vote.

Why isn’t Schumer grinding the senate to a halt????

Fair.

I think we need to start saying explicitly that we are living through an attempted coup. Everything they are doing is illegal. Every. Single. Fucking. Thing. Doing it anyway is a coup. We still have a chance to make the “attempted” part stick, but the opposition has to fucking do something.

It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.

This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.

Screenshot from the publication that lists the steps we should take: 1.Warn ominously about the kinds of catastrophes we can expect when a degenerate like Trump fires capable servants and replaces them with compromised amateurs. 2. mount a rapid public response when those consequences come to pass. 3.promise, in open and defiant terms, to rebuild quickly once voters run these vandals out of office.

Response to Wednesday's airplane crash:

This is what we should do, from Brian Beutler at Off Message
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In ‘Eureka Day,’ a Scene About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously In “Eureka Day,” changes were made to a scene because “the laughter was so robust backstage, they couldn’t hear the cues.”

Fun article about that strange, glorious scene. The effect of which I still still don't fully understand, even after so many productions. (Though I have theories!).