So, why, why, why has she chosen to return to Broadway in the anemic, copy-and-paste “Call Me Izzy,” a star vehicle fit for the junkyard? Smart is funnier, deeper and, well, smarter than ...

Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice. Though Wax sometimes writes in all-too-familiar trauma territory ...

The great Jean Smart is in full control of her every last Designing Women sitcom skill and Mare of Easttown drama chop as she delivers a tour de force in Broadway‘s Call Me Izzy, a one-person ...

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If Call Me Izzy had a signature color, it would be the entire spectrum of blue. This becomes evident in the opening scene of Jamie Wax’s play—a 90-minute, one-woman showcase for Hacks star ...

“My husband, Fred, he hates the blue cleaner I put into the toilet almost as much as he hates my writing,” Smart’s titular character says to the audience at the start of “Call Me Izzy ...

But boy, does a toilet try. For 85 fitfully moving minutes, a porcelain throne is the shag-covered centerpiece of “Call Me Izzy,” an uneven new Broadway play that opened June 12 at Studio 54.

Returning to Broadway after 25 years in “Call Me Izzy,” which opened Thursday at Studio 54, Jean Smart crushes it in the good way. Naturally, Smart plays the title character, a poor Louisiana ...

Enter “Hacks” star Jean Smart in “Call Me Izzy,” as a hothouse flower whose artistic aspirations are suffocated by her unseen ogre of a husband. Pressure to escape the trailer park is ...

Jean Smart makes a welcome, and warmly welcomed, return to Broadway after an absence of a quarter-century in “Call Me Izzy,” a solo show by Jamie Wax about a woman trying to break free from an ...

The world premiere production of Call Me Izzy has officially opened on Broadway starring six-time Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress Jean Smart. Performances run through ...