The play Silent Sky describes how Henrietta Swan Leavitt's passion for discovery enabled astronomy to map the sky and, in the process, determine our exact place in the universe. Silent Sky is on stage at the FGCU TheatreLab through February 25, 2024.
In David Auburn's proof, sisterly bonds and romantic relationships are put to the test when a female college drop-out authors a groundbreaking mathematical discovery that everyone ascribes to her recently-deceased father.
"The Women Who Mapped the Stars" tells the story of five female computers who worked in obscurity at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s. But the show won't be staged in a theater. Instead, it will be performed at and as a fundraiser for the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium.