2026 Season
Conscience
August 26 - September 13, 2026
Los Angeles Premiere
By Joe DiPietro
Directed by caryn desai
Previews $44
Thu, Fri, Sat: $56
Sun: $59
Opening Night: $59
Dinner Package: $99
Subscribers Dinner Package: $52
Post-show talkback with the cast September 6!
...DiPietro avoids cheap political shots, focusing instead on the intense interpersonal dynamics.
SUMMARY
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A LOS ANGELES PREMIERE |
Margaret Chase Smith was a trailblazer. In 1940, she became the first woman elected to Congress from Maine - and nine years later, the first woman from the state elected to the U.S. Senate. But it was in 1950 that she made her most defining mark: standing alone on the Senate floor to deliver her historic "Declaration of Conscience," a bold rebuke of Senator Joseph McCarthy's campaign of fear and intimidation during the post-World War II Red Scare.
Joe DiPietro
Playwright
Joe DiPietro is a playwright and lyricist. He has won two Tony Awards®, a Drama Desk Award, and 3 Outer Critics Circle Awards. His musicals and plays have received thousands of productions across the country and around the world.
Broadway: Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara (10 Tony Award® nominations, including Best Book, Best Musical), Memphis (4 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score,) All Shook Up, and Living on Love (starring Renée Fleming).
Off-Broadway: Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, Clever Little Lies (starring Marlo Thomas), The Toxic Avenger (OCC Award – Best off-Broadway Musical), The Thing About Men (OCC Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical), the much-produced comedy, Over the River and Through the Woods, and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (the longest running musical revue in Off-Broadway history.)
Other recent regional credits include: The Second Mrs. Wilson (Long Wharf Theatre & George Street Playhouse), Hollywood and Chasing the Song (La Jolla Playhouse), The Last Romance (The Old Globe), Creating Claire (George Street Playhouse.)
His murder mystery, The Art of Murder, won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Play and his adaptation of Schnitzler’s La Ronde — called Fucking Men — is the longest running Fringe play in London history.
He sits on the board of Only Make Believe, a charity dedicated to bringing interactive, therapeutic theatre to chronically ill children.
Dinner Packages
Don't forget ICT's scrumptious dinner packages!
For only $99 per person, you will receive a 3-course prix fixe dinner and a ticket to a production. Dinner and a show - does it get any better than that?
L'Opera Ristorante
Use code: LODinner
Gladstone's Long Beach
Use code: GSDinner
Ticketing Policies and Information
Contact the box office
Tickets may be purchased online, but feel free to call or stop by to purchase your tickets too - we're happy to help! Call us at 562.436.4610 or visit the ICT Box Office, available Monday – Friday from 9:00AM through 5:00PM. You can also email us with inquiries at ict@ictlongbeach.org.
Group sales
We offer attractive discounts for groups of 10 or more individuals. Groups get a minimum of $10 off each individual ticket, so prepare to SAVE 20-41% off regular ticket prices. Awesome! (We know.) Student groups save even more! Good seats, personalized service, plus an opportunity to add a dinner package to your fun evening or afternoon on the town. Call or email Denis for more details at (562) 495-4595, extension 106 or denis@ictlongbeach.org
Discounts
Chamber Discount
All Chamber of Commerce members receive $5 off each ticket, limit 2 tickets.**Student and Senior Discounts
Full-time students 24 and under and seniors over the age of 65 get $5 off each ticket.**Please note that all discounts are only available in advance through the ICT Box Office. Discounts are not available in combination with any other offer. Other restrictions may apply. Special Offers do not apply to Season Subscription prices.
Theatre Location and parking
ICT in the Beverly O'Neill Theater
at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center
330 East Seaside Way
Long Beach, CA 90802
(at intersection of S. Hart Place)Seating Chart
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