WILLIMANTIC — The Burton Leavitt Theatre will transform into the 1920s when “Radium Girls” takes the stage for its first performance Friday. ... Orange, New Jersey, Ottawa, Illinois, ...

WILLIMANTIC — The Burton Leavitt Theatre will transform into the 1920s when “Radium Girls” takes the stage for its first performance Friday. The play, written by D.W. Gregory, tells the story of Grace ...

Inspired by true events, Radium Girls is an award winning play written by D.W. Gregory in 2000. The story is set in Orange, New Jersey and spans the years from 1918 to 1926.

Though the actual story ranged from 1918 through the 1940s, the bulk of the narrative in the drama is centered on events that took place in New Jersey in the mid 1920s. “’Radium Girls’ tells the story ...

Moore tells the story of the young women who worked in radium-dial factories focusing on the United States Radium Corp. (USRC) in Orange, New Jersey starting in 1917 and the Radium Dial Company in ...

Cappies Review: ‘Radium Girls’ Shines at Bishop Ireton High School From left are Lyndsey Lawrence, Abigail Abraham, Sophie de Waal, Kip Sisel, and Matthew Monaghan. Photo by Carly Walbert ...

There were 13 in all working at the Radium Factory in Orange, New Jersey. ... But that would change with the death of one of the Radium Girls, followed by the sickness of others.

The answer lay with Mollie’s job. Before she got sick, she spent her days painting watches with glow-in-the-dark radium for the United States Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey — exactly like ...

Based on the true story of workers at the U.S. Radium Corp. in Orange, New Jersey, “Radium Girls” tied for fourth on the Educational Theatre Association’s 2023 list of the Top 10 most ...

“Radium Girls,” by D.W. Gregory, follows the true story of a legal battle against the United States Radium Company by workers at the company’s factory in Orange, New Jersey, who began to experience ...