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 ...

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 ...

The world premiere production of Call Me Izzy has officially opened on Broadway starring six-time Emmy Award-winning and Tony ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

That's the proportion of doll imports into the U.S. that come from China. Many American Girl dolls are made in China, as are a significant share of Barbies. China tariffs have hurt low-margin ...

This time, she is tasked with carrying the production — a new play by Jamie Wax titled “Call Me Izzy” — all by herself, and it’s a burden I wouldn’t wish on anyone. “Izzy” casts Ms. Smart as Isabelle ...

Written by Jamie Wax and directed by Sarna Lapine, Call Me Izzy is a can’t-miss theatrical event and a moving portrait of one woman’s refusal to be silenced through her own sheer tenacity ...

The girl started creating her dreamy garden when the family moved into a new house. Three months later, she got it done.