FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7th, 2025 | 7:30PM

Digital Theater Screening (42 mins)

Step into the laboratory and life of two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Skłodowska Curie. This cinematic adaptation of the acclaimed one-woman show features living history scholar Susan Marie Frontczak masterfully portraying Curie as she recounts her journey from childhood in Poland to groundbreaking research in France. Audiences are invited to join Curie on her quest to isolate polonium and radium as she pioneers the the field of radioactivity. HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS: A VISIT WITH MARIE CURIE breaks the digital fourth wall between theater and film, past and present.

Hosted by: Dr. Anna Frebel, Professor of Physics at MIT.

Post-Screening Q&A with filmmaker Jen Myronuk and performer Susan Marie Frontczak (virtual)

RSVP: MARIE CURIE - NOVEMBER 7th, 2025

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, 2025 | 7:30PM

Digital Theater Screening (30 mins) & Science Talk

Experience Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner's groundbreaking discovery of nuclear fission through a living history portrayal by MIT Professor of Physics Dr. Anna Frebel.

This debut cinematic performance explores how Meitner's century-old discoveries continue to inspire astronomers uncovering the cosmic origins of heavy elements.

Following the screening of LISE MEITNER & THE UNIVERSE OF ATOMS, join Dr. Frebel for a live presentation on her research into ancient stars and the stellar creation of elements like silver and gold.

RSVP: LISE MEITNER - NOVEMBER 8th