Silent Sky is astronomically enlightening

Last year, Lauren Gunderson was granted the title of the most produced living playwright in America. Heralded for her prolific writings, Gunderson shows her understanding of science in the current production at the Lamb’s Playhouse in Coronado.

Silent Sky is the story of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt. While working at the Harvard Observatory, Leavitt determines the correlation between a star’s luminosity and its distance from earth.

This is not the stuff most playwrights would pick to put to paper. Nonetheless, Gunderson pulls it off. This biography of real people doing real work is endear...