Truth can be stranger than fiction, and the story of the Radium Girls of the 1920s still emanates an eerie cautionary glow ...

They may sound like a forgotten '80s new wave band, but the Radium Girls were actually young female employees who were hired in the early 20th century to paint watches with a special radium paint.

Maybe the girls thought it was cool at first. They could walk through the night streets without worrying about streetlights guiding their way, because they were the light. People around town called ...

We have to look at history truthfully in order to learn from it, and D.W. Gregory’s play “Radium Girls” shines a light on a dark moment in our past. In the 1920s, women who worked at the U.S. Radium ...

TAFE: Theatre Arts for Everyone presents the historically-based play, Radium Girls, from April 25th-27th under the direction of Crystal Ganong. Inspired by true events, Radium Girls is an award ...

The Masquers community theater group is staging the play "Radium Girls" in Manitowoc. The play is based on the true story of female factory workers in the 1920s who suffered from radium poisoning.

Lena Wolfe’s Radium Girls achieves exactly that. Wolfe’s first immersive dance production draws inspiration from Kate Moore’s book The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, which ...

Over 100 years ago, radium was considered a "miracle element." It was used in products like makeup, elixirs, and clocks, where radium-infused paint was used to make them glow. But then, the workers ...