Westminster College and Cottonwood High students star in ‘I and You,’ a popular playwright’s move into YA territory READ MORE HERE I and You @ Rose Wagner Center,138 W. 300 South,801-355-2787, Feb 2-17, days and times vary, $15-$20, pygmalionproductions.org
FRIDAY 11/3 Pygmalion Theatre Co.: The Weyward Sisters Just because Halloween season has ended doesn’t mean you need to leave witchy fun behind. Throughout the month, Pygmalion Theatre Co. presents The Weyward Sisters, a comedic twist on William Shakespeare’s Macbeth told from the witches’ point of view. Three modern and good actual witches are recruited to perform in “the
Tuesday, we’re talking about the 19th-century women who measured the cosmos. Science journalist Dava Sobel is among our guests. Her latest book is about the women employed by Harvard Observatory to serve as “human computers.” They did calculations based on the observations of their male counterparts, but became astronomical pioneers in their own right. Pygmalion Theatre Company is staging a play based on the life of one of these remarkable women, which gives us an excuse to talk about them and discoveries.
Dava Sobel is a former science reporter for the New York Times. She’s the co-author of six books and the author of five, including her newest, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Mark Fossen directed Pygmalion Theatre Company’s production of Lauren Gunderson’s play Silent Sky. It’s about the life of Henrietta Leavitt, an astronomer at Harvard Observatory in the 19th century.
Hannah Minshew plays Henrietta Leavitt in Pygmalion Theatre Company’s production of Silent Sky.
