#27
Posted: 6/21/26 at 1:31pm
CoffeeBreak said: "is this late in the show ? Do they release your phone after the nudity act is over or is it at the end?
That's a long time if my family or kids needed us."
Did you ever leave your home before cell phones? I'm SURE that someone other than yourself could "help" your family in a true emergency. 911 for example? It's astonishing how many people these days think that they are essential to the survival of mankind!
Updated On: 6/30/26 at 01:31 PM
#29
Posted: 6/30/26 at 12:07am
BIRTHRIGHT: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A COMMON GROUND
By Melissa Rose Bernardo
★★★★☆ Politics underscore but don’t overpower the character-driven epic from Jonathan Spector
REVIEW
BIRTHRIGHT: POLITICAL AND PERSONAL ISSUES INTERSECT TO POWERFUL EFFECT
By Frank Scheck
★★★★☆ The new play by Jonathan Spector ("Eureka Day"
depicts the reunions over two decades of a group of friends who met on a Birthright trip to Israel.
REVIEW
Updated On: 6/30/26 at 12:07 AM
#30
Posted: 6/30/26 at 12:09am
THE WRAP - Robert Hoffler
Birthright’ Off Broadway Review: The Year’s Best New Play (So Far) Is a Jewish ‘Big Chill’
Jonathan Spector (“Eureka Day&rdquo delivers a scorchingly funny look at a trip to Israel
REVIEW
Updated On: 6/30/26 at 12:09 AM
#31
Posted: 6/30/26 at 12:12am
#32
Posted: 6/30/26 at 12:53am
Forward - Mira Fox
The play is about Birthright, but it’s about a lot more than Israel
Jonathan Spector’s new play sidesteps obvious polemics to create a surprisingly nuanced show
REVIEW
Culture Sauce - Them Geier
‘Birthright’ is a mazel tov cocktail and the year’s best new play (Off Broadway review)
REVIEW
Updated On: 6/30/26 at 12:53 AM
#33
Posted: 6/30/26 at 12:54pm
NY TIMES - Helen Shaw
CRITIC’S PICK
‘Birthright’ Stages a Thrillingly Complex Conversation on Conversation Itself
Jonathan Spector’s ambitious drama about six Jewish friends and their shifting relationship with Israel stretches over three hours and nearly two decades.
REVIEW
Updated On: 6/30/26 at 12:54 PM
#34
Posted: 7/10/26 at 7:26am
Finally saw it, and it’s excellent. You may have to be Jewish to fully get all the nuances of the characters, but maybe I’m wrong. Beautifully written with humor, compassion, and insight from all sides of the argument. This one will stay with me for a while.
#35
Posted: 7/30/26 at 7:14am
This was a 10/10 meal of a play for me. It’s so rare to have an idea play also be a sitcom and a character study, and this somehow nails all three. And one of the more “well, I didn’t see that coming” third act twists I’ve ever seen that I was worried would derail the whole evening, but they landed the plane spectacularly. Excellent performances, excellent direction.
Side-note: I cannot imagine Abbi Jacobson as Izzy or Molly Bernard as Alona, so the casting really worked out for the best. Abbi and Zoe Winters playing lifelong best friends would have looked like twins.
#36
Posted: 7/31/26 at 11:29pm
I thought this was pretty damn brilliant.
It's a beautifully complex character and political study. It's rare that a playwright pulls one off, let alone two, but both are pulled of here. I also never felt the length -- it speeds along its runtime and by the end I was actually thinking "I'd spend another 3 hours with these characters right now if I could." The dialogue is fantastic (sans the first 10 minutes which has some rather cringe "old man writes how he thinks young people talk" dialogue), the politics are clear without being grandstanding or shoehorned, and it's wonderful at intertwining modern Jewish culture with regular everyday life. It's early, but I think that this one should be in the conversation for a Pulitzer nomination this year.
#37
Posted: 8/1/26 at 10:11am
I was a bit more split on the play but not on the actors and production which are solid.
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