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GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED.
Playing through July 14 at Custom Made Theatre
"Wonderfully inventive. Each character reveals multiple dimensions, thanks to Spector's artistry...director Lauren English captures every nuance of this delectable comedy; she's the perfect match for Spector's sly sense of humor and deep empathy for the human condition in the age of anxiety...funny, charming and oddly affecting." - San Francisco Examiner
"Its dialogue is so crisp, its characters so compelling and real, that I was happy to sit back and enjoy watching humanity take a nose dive into the pile of glass shards of the broken dream of America that is Las Vegas." Talkin' Broadway
"The corkscrew escalation of the one-of-a-kind production “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” delivers hysteria on a luxurious golden platter. Audiences should strap in, because the comedy provides one hell of a ride...glistening, enthusiastic, satiric and wild" - Sophie Kim, Daily Cal
"Are we ready for the conversation that Spector is designing in his surreal and satirical vision of Las Vegas at the brink? Maybe it’s the Next Big Thing."
-Tyler Jeffreys, Theatritus
"It’s an entertaining, fast-moving, emotional roller coaster of a production, shifting effectively between episodes eliciting side-splitting laughter, serious reflection, shock, and horror, all punctuated by an uneasy sense of sadness and despair that looms over even some of the most awkward and laugh-out-loud moments in this multi-dimensional comedy...Spector has crafted his characters with empathy and depth"
- Nicole Singley, Aisle Seat Review
Playing through July 14 at Custom Made Theatre
"Wonderfully inventive. Each character reveals multiple dimensions, thanks to Spector's artistry...director Lauren English captures every nuance of this delectable comedy; she's the perfect match for Spector's sly sense of humor and deep empathy for the human condition in the age of anxiety...funny, charming and oddly affecting." - San Francisco Examiner
"Its dialogue is so crisp, its characters so compelling and real, that I was happy to sit back and enjoy watching humanity take a nose dive into the pile of glass shards of the broken dream of America that is Las Vegas." Talkin' Broadway
"The corkscrew escalation of the one-of-a-kind production “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” delivers hysteria on a luxurious golden platter. Audiences should strap in, because the comedy provides one hell of a ride...glistening, enthusiastic, satiric and wild" - Sophie Kim, Daily Cal
"Are we ready for the conversation that Spector is designing in his surreal and satirical vision of Las Vegas at the brink? Maybe it’s the Next Big Thing."
-Tyler Jeffreys, Theatritus
"It’s an entertaining, fast-moving, emotional roller coaster of a production, shifting effectively between episodes eliciting side-splitting laughter, serious reflection, shock, and horror, all punctuated by an uneasy sense of sadness and despair that looms over even some of the most awkward and laugh-out-loud moments in this multi-dimensional comedy...Spector has crafted his characters with empathy and depth"
- Nicole Singley, Aisle Seat Review
RECENT
(Elizabeth Carter, Lisa Anne Porter)
EUREKA DAY is a hit!
"Jonathan Spector's play is so crisply defined that you might have to periodically remind yourself that you haven't already met these characters in real life...Spector proves as much as master of pathos as of comedy." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Talented playwright Jonathan Spector has achieved the almost impossible. He’s created an exceptional play that is laugh-out-loud funny, yet with an intelligent and introspective perspective...inventive, humorous and heartbreaking." - Berkeleyside
"Never has a work so successfully integrated the effect of social media, in real times, on our un-virtual lives, as Jonathan Spector's play." - SF Weekly
"There’s a scene toward the end of the first act in local playwright Jonathan Spector’s world premiere “Eureka Day” at the Aurora Theatre Company, that’s so funny — the audience will likely be laughing so loudly — that you won’t hear a word of the dialogue. But Spector’s writing is so beautifully calibrated, so carefully crafted, that somehow that’s OK." - San Francisco Examiner
"Eureka Day is a rarity, a profound comedy that hits on all cylinders." - KPFA
“Eureka Day” may spark some agitated post-show conversations eerily mirroring the ones in the play. That just goes to show how keenly observed the comedy is. It hits awfully, gut-churningly close to home". - East Bay Times
"What a show...one of the funniest, laugh-out-loud-fist-in-mouth twenty minutes we have seen in years." SF Theaterblog
"Eureka Day is theatre at its best" - Dogmom's Dish
Tickets and info at AURORA THEATRE