March 13, 2025

Radium Girls at Old Town Playhouse

By Jamie Kauffold | April 6, 2024

Get a glimpse of American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science in Radium Girls, performed April 5, 6, 11, 12, and 13 at 7:30pm; and April 7 and 13 at 2pm at Traverse City’s Old Town Playhouse. Set in 1926, the story follows the girls who paint luminous radium watches and begin to fall ill with a mysterious disease, focusing on the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Tickets: $33 adults; $20 youth under 18. oldtownplayhouse.com

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