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Austin Playhouse presents Silent Sky

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At the dawn of modern astronomy, Henrietta Leavitt leaves her home and beloved sister to work in Harvard’s male-driven observatory and map the night sky. She forms a new sisterhood with her fellow star “computers,” Annie and Williamina, and begins to fall in love with her supervisor, Peter Shaw. As Henrietta makes a revolutionary discovery about where the Earth is in time and space, she must fight to be heard in a world where women’s ideas are dismissed until men take credit for them.

A celestial romance and a true story of determination, Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky invites you to revel in the magic of the universe on this historic journey of love, family, feminism, and science.

At the dawn of modern astronomy, Henrietta Leavitt leaves her home and beloved sister to work in Harvard’s male-driven observatory and map the night sky. She forms a new sisterhood with her fellow star “computers,” Annie and Williamina, and begins to fall in love with her supervisor, Peter Shaw. As Henrietta makes a revolutionary discovery about where the Earth is in time and space, she must fight to be heard in a world where women’s ideas are dismissed until men take credit for them.

A celestial romance and a true story of determination, Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky invites you to revel in the magic of the universe on this historic journey of love, family, feminism, and science.

At the dawn of modern astronomy, Henrietta Leavitt leaves her home and beloved sister to work in Harvard’s male-driven observatory and map the night sky. She forms a new sisterhood with her fellow star “computers,” Annie and Williamina, and begins to fall in love with her supervisor, Peter Shaw. As Henrietta makes a revolutionary discovery about where the Earth is in time and space, she must fight to be heard in a world where women’s ideas are dismissed until men take credit for them.

A celestial romance and a true story of determination, Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky invites you to revel in the magic of the universe on this historic journey of love, family, feminism, and science.

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WHERE

Austin Playhouse
405 W. 22nd St.
Austin, TX 78705
https://austinplayhouse.ticketleap.com/silent-sky/dates

TICKET INFO

$28-$35
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