A soaring, music-rich, female-led science drama about Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the forgotten women's faces of science working at the dawn of modern astronomy to classify the stars. This luminously beautiful play explores a woman's place as defined by men in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries. With music and math bursting forth onstage, Henrietta and her female peers change the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
"...sheer magic [is] in Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky...Gunderson [writes] economically with bursts of smart, infectious humor." San Francisco Chronicle
"In Silent Sky, a pioneer claims her place among astronomy's stars." Boston Globe
RUN TIME: Approximately 2 hours with an intermission