D.W. Gregory’s gripping drama based on the true story of female laborers who were poisoned and killed by their factory’s radium-based paint centered on events in New Jersey in the mid 1920’s. The play highlights Grace, Irene, and Kathryn who paint dials in the U.S. Radium Plant and are instructed to finely point their brushes by molding the bristles with their mouths while painting. The factory’s new owner, Arthur Roeder, is excited by radium’s promising future and believes in the company’s potential for growth. But soon many of the girls begin to notice disturbing health issues, and one of their co-workers dies, but her death is brushed aside. The plant tries to keep the girls who are getting sicker from talking to the press, push back their court dates, and deflect any negativity toward the company.

Radium Girls fiercely examines the commercialization of science, the pursuit of both health and wealth, the power of the underdog, and the fierce injustice laborers in America have faced, and may even continue to face in the present.

Show Times

Friday:  September 23, 2022 – 7:00pm

Saturday:  September 24, 2022 – 7:00pm

Sunday:  September 25, 2022 – 2:00pm

Tickets

Tickets are $5.00.  Tickets must be purchased online at Radium Girls Tickets.  There will be no cash option at the gate.

Here is a link to Matthew Putney's Photo Gallery from the Dress Rehearsal on Wednesday, September 22:  Radium Girls Dress Rehearsal