Maybe the girls thought it was cool at first. They could walk through the night streets without worrying about streetlights guiding their way, because they were the light. People around town called ...

Workers unite against dangerous factory conditions in "Radium Girls," a new show opening at The Empty Space. The play is ...

A century ago, radium in scant quantities was thought to be healthful. People sipped it diluted in water and applied makeup made with it. They consumed milk and butter laced with it and brushed their ...

In 1888, the match girls of London went on strike. Their reason was a particularly horrifying working condition: ingesting phosphorus. A girl with "phossy jaw" would literally glow in the dark as her ...

Inspired by true events, Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory follows the shocking and poignant story of the young women who painted luminous watch dials in the 1920s, unaware that the glowing substance they ...

In the theater of Flagstaff High School, the stage is set and the lights are green for the upcoming production of “Radium Girls,” which opens Thursday at 7 p.m. Literally, the lights are green. Copy ...

Carla Clark | For The Republic Braden Huckaby, as Tom Kreider, at left, and Natalie Cantu, as Grace Fryer, look at wall paper samples for the nursery during a rehearsal for the North Drama’s ...

“..the body says what words cannot… Dance is the hidden language of the soul…” – Martha Graham. Lena Wolfe’s Radium Girls achieves exactly that. Wolfe’s first immersive dance production draws ...