Theater: The confrontation between senators McCarthy and Chase Smith explored onstage in CONSCIENCE
Of Republican Sen. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908"1957) of Wisconsin, President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "I will not get in the gutter with that guy," but Jersey-born, two-time Tony Award-winning playwright and lyricist Joe DiPietro has used a confrontation between McCarthy and fellow Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (1897 " 1995) of Maine as the basis for a four-character play called "Conscience," now onst…