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Thursday-Friday
March 19-20, 7pm

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The Ella Fitzgerald Theatre
Of the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center

2410 Wickam Avenue, Newport News​​

 

​An ATP Production

Directed by
Conner Grieff & Garret Roberts

​​In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage ...

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Until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire.

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Written with warmth and humor, Radium Girls is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece. Called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science.

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TICKETS ONLINE ONLY!

$25 Adults, $15 Kids 10 and under

General admission

Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime

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RADIUM GIRLS is presented by special arrangement with
THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.

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