{"id":46458,"date":"2017-02-14T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=46458"},"modified":"2017-02-16T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:17:49","slug":"nau-theatre-produces-silent-sky-play-women-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-theatre-produces-silent-sky-play-women-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU Theatre produces &#8216;Silent Sky&#8217;\u2014a play about women in astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/cal\/theatre\/\">NAU Department of Theatre<\/a> is producing <em>Silent Sky<\/em>, a play about Henrietta Leavitt\u2014the scientist who helped prove the universe existed beyond the Milky Way Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Written by emerging San Francisco playwright Lauren Gunderson, <em>Silent Sky<\/em> tells the story of how Leavitt and her female peers changed the way we understand both the heavens and the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe play explores a woman&#8217;s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women&#8217;s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them,\u201d said director <strong>Robert Yowell<\/strong>.\u00a0\u201cSocial progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 25 NAU students will play a part in the show\u2019s production, working on lighting, sound, props, costumes and more. The cast includes four women and one man. Innovative stage design is provided by <strong>Naoko Skala<\/strong>, NAU\u2019s scene designer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Silent Sky<\/em> will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, 25 and March 1-4, and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 26 and March 5 in the Clifford E. White Theater in the Performing and Fine Arts Building on NAU\u2019s Flagstaff campus.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for seniors and NAU employees and $8 for students and children. For tickets go to <a href=\"http:\/\/jan.ucc.nau.edu\/cto-p\/\">NAU\u2019s Central Ticket Office<\/a> or call 928-523-5661. Group discounts are available. Non-weekend community parking options can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.t2hosted.com\/cmn\/auth_guest.aspx\">nau.edu\/guest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-theatre-produces-silent-sky-play-women-astronomy\/\">The NAU Department of Theatre is producing Silent Sky, a play about Henrietta Leavitt\u2014the scientist who helped prove the universe existed beyond the Milky Way Galaxy. Written by emerging San Francisco playwright Lauren Gunderson, Silent Sky tells the story of how Leavitt and her female peers changed the way we understand both the heavens and&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":46460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}