Sat, Feb 8, 2025  8pm

Radium Girls production at Theatre 3 in West Acton – Feb 1- 9, 2025
February 1, 7, 8, 2025 at 8 p.m.
February 2, 9, 2025 at 2 p.m.

AB STEAM Night is Sat Feb 8  - Group tix $20 – email us to reserve tickets at actonpip@gmail.com (subject line: Theatre 3 Radium Girls) by Feb 1 or buy tickets online (any production) at  www.theatre3.org/

A true story about amazing brave women and their contributions to science and workplace plus occupational safety and protection.

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, 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.  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.