These Shining Lives
Date and Time
Thursday Apr 16, 2026 Sunday Apr 26, 2026
April 16 – April 26
Thursday - Saturday 7:30pm
Saturday & Sunday 2pm
Location
Lyceum Theater
55 Fair Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Fees/Admission
GENERAL $17 SENIORS
STUDENTS & GROUPS $15
VU THEATER ALUMNI $11
Prices do not include credit card and service fees
Contact Information
714-668-6145
boxoffice@vanguard.edu
vanguardtickets.com
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Description
Directed by Susan K. Berkompas
A HEARTFELT DRAMA BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF THE RADIUM GIRLS
By Melanie Marnich
These Shinig Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine Donohue and her friends have loving families and good jobs painting glow-in-thedark watch faces at Chicago’s Radium Dial Company, and the 1920s seem full of promise. The tragedy comes when Catherine and her colleagues begin falling ill, one by one, with mystifying ailments. When the cause of their symptoms finally becomes clear, Catherine and her friends must find a way to deal with their own inconvenient truth: that the job they love has betrayed them. This is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as these women refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits or endanger the lives of those who come after them.
