(January 5, 2015) Santa Fe, NM — New Mexico School for the Arts’ Theater Department will open its 2015 season with Radium Girls, by D. W. Gregory, directed by Joey Chavez and Deborah Potter. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls follows the popularity of radium as a medical and industrial product, used for a variety of purposes – from fighting tumors to providing luminous paint for wristwatch faces – until the workers painting them began to fall ill from a mysterious disease. Gregory’s play traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a wristwatch dial painter in the 1920’s, as she fights for her day in court. Shows will be at the James A. Little theater January 29, 30 and 31 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors, and can be purchased online at nmschoolforthearts.org/tickets.
On Saturday, February 7, the Theater Department will present an encore performance of The Shakespeare Project, first performed in October 2014, as part of a Dessert Theater fundraiser for the Parent Association. Show time will be 7 p.m. in NMSA’s Large Rehearsal Hall (the school is located at 275 E. Alameda) with a raffle and silent auction. Keep your eyes open for more information about this wonderful evening of food, fun and entertainment!
NMSA was a recipient of the national Arts Schools Network Exemplary School Designation at their annual conference in Denver earlier this year, and has been graded an “A” school for the third year in a row from the New Mexico Public Education Department.