‘The Soiled Dove’ performer

As a new season of Bay Area theater gets underway this month, two disparate shows with deep local roots are returning to local stages. At a time when performing arts organizations are under even more intense fiscal and political pressure than usual, these left-leaning homecomings are particularly heartening.

The cast of ‘Eureka Day’ (photo: David Allen)   THIS IS GOING TO HURT A LITTLE _To vax or not to vax?_ That’s the vexing question that animates local playwright Jonathan Spector’s biting social comedy “Eureka Day.”

Set at a posh private school faced with an outbreak of the mumps, the show was commissioned and developed at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre, where it had its world premiere in 2018. Regional, Off Broadway, and London productions followed, culminat

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