Arts & Entertainment

Public Reading of New Play: MTC's New Works Series presents Silent Sky

Experience how a new play is developed through MTC's New Works Series. Join us for a FREE staged reading of Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky, directed by Meredith McDonough (Director of New Works at TheatreWorks), on Mon, Dec 5, at 7:30PM. A question and answer session with the playwright, director and actors follows the performance. Reserve your tickets now online or call our Box Office, 415.388.5208.


SILENT SKY | By Lauren Gunderson
As Henrietta Leavitt stared at the stars and struggled to chart our place in the universe, she charted a new path for women at the turn of the 20th century. Leaving behind her family in rural Massachusetts, she moved to Boston in 1893 to join Pickering's Harem - the all-female data collection staff of the Harvard Observatory. There, she mapped stars from photographic plates, expected to process and record but never analyze the data. Henrietta refused to be content just tidying up the cosmos for her male colleagues and set off on a crusade that changed our perception of our world forever. Gunderson fills the life of this eclipsed astronomer with brilliant light in this funny, inspirational and heartwarming play.


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