2024 Season
The Double V
August 21 - September 8
Based on True Events
Directed by
Michael A. Shepperd
by Carole Eglash-Kosoff
Previews $37
Thu, Fri, Sat: $49
Sun: $52
Opening Night: $55
Dinner Package: $89
Post-show talkback with the cast!
September 1
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Opening Night Gala - Friday, August 23 - 5:30 pm
This thought-provoking play is both intriguing and riveting as it traces the evolution of a movement which will eventually have a major impact on American society.
SUMMARY
This is a story about activism, a dramatization of true events during the early years of World War II. After trying to enlist in the army, Jimmy Thompson becomes distraught by the way he has been treated. He writes a letter to the then largest African-American newspaper in the United States, The Pittsburgh Courier, which goes on to champion the Double V campaign – V for victory in the war and a V for victory in racial equality at home. The Double V is an amazing true story about the nation’s first black civil rights movement and how one young man’s focus and persistence initiated societal changes through a simple letter to a newspaper.
Carole Eglash-Kosoff
Playwright
Carole Eglash-Kosoff is a novelist, playwright, and documentary film maker. She lives and writes in Valley Village, California. She graduated from UCLA and pursued a successful business career. Her husband died in 2006. Since then she has been teaching, writing, and traveling to more than eighty countries. She also established the CEK Foundation to help graduating students and needy families.
She has published six novels, written and produced four stage plays, including the Ovation Award winning musical, When Jazz Had the Blues, and two documentary films.
Dinner Package
Don’t forget ICT’s scrumptious dinner package! We offer this affordable package in conjunction with L’Opera Ristorante one of Long Beach’s finest restaurants. For only $89 a person (plus $2 convenience/handling fee), 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?
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 102 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)Parking: $15
Seating Chart
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