“You can always spot a Eureka Day kid, because at soccer games, they’re the ones who cheer when the other team scores.”
So says Carina (Amber Gray), the parent of a new enrollee at Berkeley’s Eureka Day school, explaining what had been her thinking in placing her son there. To this point, like-minded members of the audience at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre have been ushered into the world of this swaddlingly well-meaning institution through familiar signifiers of liberal best intentions. The school library where the executive committee meets is bedecked with a “Berkeley Stands United Against Hate” poster and images of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michelle
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