This fall, Lone Star College-CyFair’s Drama Department takes audiences back in time with two stories of courageous women fighting for workers’ rights and making historic scientific discoveries.
This October, LSC-CyFair’s student actors illuminate the journey of the “Radium Girls” of the 1920s in Melanie Marnich’s “These Shining Lives” Oct. 9-18 in the Black Box Theatre. Based on a true story, the play explores four women’s resilience and friendship as they struggle with workplace radiation poisoning and fight against corporate negligence.
In the Main Stage Theatre this November, audiences travel back to the 19th-century with Lauren Gunderson’s “Silent Sky” Nov. 6-15 for a riveting real-life story celebrating astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. With a blend of humor and romance, this play explores the career challenges in a male-dominate field and personal sacrifices of this passionate female astronomer as she balances family, romance and ground-breaking work in the scientific world.
For tickets and information, go to LoneStar.edu/Boxoffice. Be sure to check out the full Center for the Arts visual and performing arts season schedule at LoneStar.edu/CFA.