![]() Playwright Alda, best known for playing Hawkeye on TV's "M*A*S*H," and for his screenplays and direction of feature films, said in a statement, "Marie Curie has been alive in my head for the last four years while I've been writing this play, and to see these brilliant actors make Marie and her world burst into life on the stage is staggering for me. Celebrated but then rejected by the popular press as both a woman and scientist, Curie is left to define her place in society - and history - on her own terms." For all the answers that come to her in the lab, Curie's life is peppered with questions of how to realize the passion she has for both knowledge and love. Famous for her groundbreaking research in radioactivity, Curie was the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences, but not without a struggle. Gunn has previously appeared at the Geffen Playhouse in the world premiere of Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still and is a star of AMC's "Breaking Bad." Her Radiance castmates include TV and film star Annabeth Gish ("Mystic Pizza," "X-Files"), John de Lancie ("Q" on "Star Trek" and a "Days of Our Lives" veteran), Hugo Armstrong, Don Donohue, Leonard Kelly- Young and Sarah Zimmerman.Īccording to Geffen notes, "Timed perfectly with the 100th anniversary of Madame Curie's second Nobel Prize as well as the first International Year of Chemistry, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie delves into the life and romance of one of the most brilliant female scientists in history. 10 at Geffen's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater in Los Angeles. ![]() Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan ( Proof, Rabbit Hole) directs the play, to run Nov. ![]()
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