THEATER: “EMILIE: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight”
The title is unwieldy--but in her day she wielded enough intellectual and sexual heat to amp up the already significant wattage of the Age of Enlightenment. Emilie du Chatelet should be a household name like Newton and Einstein but history has shoved her aside. Because of her gender, her brilliance has been overlooked, undermined, and [...]