Silent Sky
By Lauren Gunderson
Director: Robert MacPherson and Assistant Director: Jennifer MacPherson
Sept 18, 19, 24, 25 & 26 2026 at 7:30 pm
Sept 20 & 27, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Adults $22
Students/Seniors $17
UCONN/ECSU/QVCC Students $15
Children under 12 $13
Silent Sky is a play that tells the true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. The play explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific and heart-bound discoveries. Henrietta has the opportunity to work at Harvard University as a human computer, one of Dr. Edward Pickering’s “harem,” mapping the stars but receiving no scientific credit. With music and math bursting forth onstage, Henrietta and her female peers change the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
Cast
| Henrietta Leavitt | Xel Simone |
| Annie Cannon | Melanie Serkosky |
| Williamina Flemming | Tara Golson |
| Margaret Leavitt | Kaitee Tredway |
| Peter Show | Justin Chapman |