Early this November, Burr and Burton Academy’s performing arts department will be presenting the play, Radium Girls.

The play opens with Grace and her coworkers, dressed in drab sepia tones, painting with the neon glowing radium paint used to illuminate watch faces in the 1900s. The girls begin playfully ...

Catherine Wolfe Donohue’s heroic perseverance, flowing from her deep Catholic faith, stands as a timeless example of strength ...

The Radium Girls was a nickname coined for female factory workers who suffered radiation poisoning while painting watch dials in the early 1900s. To get a fine tip with their paint brushes ...

Wellesley is fortunate to have a lively arts scene, with various opportunities to engage with or make art at any given time.

That possibility had occurred to him in consequence of observing the rapid rate at which radium decays. Supposing this to be uniform, he estimates that all which is at present in existence will ...

Following a pair of lighthearted comedies, Buena Vista High School’s Trident Theatre Company is taking on a more somber, ...

After an impressive forty-year run as a cornerstone of community spirit and celebration, the iconic Radium pub, on Louis Botha, Orange Grove, is set to change hands. Owner Lina Cabeleira ...

The play's setting is mostly 1920s New Jersey, where females received 47 cents per hour — good pay at the time — to paint "radium dials." These dials were on certain instruments and painted ...

Tickets are available for $12 online. The show is a historical drama about the girls who painted dials in Orange, N.J., for ...

BANGOR-- The John Bapst Players will soon present a play called "Radium Girls". It's based on the true story of a group of ...