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‘Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington’
Sally Jones of Norway portrays U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in a one-woman play to be staged by Out of the Box Theater. “Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington,” scripted by theater co-founder Linda Britt, explores Smith’s public and private lives. Highlighted is Smith’s well-known “Declaration of Conscience” speech denouncing the excesses of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade. Jones is director and performer for the Oxford Hills Music and Performing Arts Association. The play will be performed Feb. 19-28 at DownStage at L/A Arts, No. 5 Canal St., just off Pine Street. Seating is limited. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 19, 20, 26, 27; and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 21 and 28. Advance tickets, $10, may be reserved by calling 782-7228 or online at.laarts.org.  
 

Sally Jones of Norway portrays U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in a one-woman play to be staged by Out of the Box Theater. “Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington,” scripted by theater co-founder Linda Britt, explores Smith’s public and private lives. Highlighted is Smith’s well-known “Declaration of Conscience” speech denouncing the excesses of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade. Jones is director and performer for the Oxford Hills Music and Performing Arts Association. The play will be performed Feb. 19-28 at DownStage at L/A Arts, No. 5 Canal St., just off Pine Street. Seating is limited. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 19, 20, 26, 27; and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 21 and 28. Advance tickets, $10, may be reserved by calling 782-7228 or online at.laarts.org.