Radium Girls

Name: Radium Girls
Start: 2025-04-24T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-24T21:30:00-05:00
Location: 7401 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS

Schedule

Thu Apr 24 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

7401 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS | Overland Park, KS

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—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, 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, 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.
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois