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New York. 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 ...
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 12Â ...
Still, this straight-to-Broadway production could have been strengthened with more development. The revelation of Izzy and Ferd's son is sketchy; a ...
Jean Smart has plenty of talent. The trouble is, back on Broadway with 'Call Me Izzy,' she's stuck in a production that has little idea what to do ...
Jean Smart makes a triumphant return to Broadway after more than two decades in Jamie Wax's Call Me Izzy, a raw, poetic, and deeply affecting one-person play directed by Sarna Lapine. In thi…
The solo show serves as the Broadway debut for playwright Jamie Wax.
Six-time Emmy® Award winner and Tony Award® nominee Jean Smart is back on Broadway for a limited time only, in a tour-de-force portrayal of a writer whose words are her greatest gift, …
Returning to Broadway after 25 years in "Call Me Izzy," which opened Thursday at Studio 54, Jean Smart crushes it in the good way.
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The first production of the new Broadway season, Call Me Izzy blesses 2025-2026 with a terrific beginning. One only hopes Tony voters have very, very long memories.
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Jean Smart, heading back to Broadway after a career revival on television, has plenty of talent. The trouble is she's stuck in a production that has little idea what to do with it, other tha…
So, it all comes down to her, and Smart delivers the kind of once-in-a-lifetime performance that lingers long after the play ends. So raw, so shattering, the distance is vast between Izzy an…
Theatrely's Broadway's review of Call Me Izzy starring Jean Smart, written by Jamie Wax and directed by Sarna Lapine at Studio 54 in New York City.
Jean Smart is superb. Her performance is so smooth - even through rough bits - that she appears not to be acting at all. Â She simply transforms over and over again as she slips into each …
Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice.
In playwright Jamie Wax's one-hander "Call Me Izzy," Jean Smart …
The "Hacks" star returns to Broadway after 25 years in a triumph for her, if not for the old-fashioned, flowery play about spouse abuse.
The first production of the new Broadway season, Call Me Izzy blesses 2025-2026 with a terrific beginning. One only hopes Tony voters have very, very ...
I managed to avoid reading anything about Call Me Izzy except for the obvious fact that it stars Jean Smart and it's a one-character play. Full disclosure, I am NOT a fan of one-person shows…
★★★★☆ Sarna Lapine directs the six-time Emmy winner soloing as a talented but oppressed trailer-park housewife
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Studio 54, New York
The Hacks star is magnetic but the show, where she plays a woman finding herself late in life, can't match her
We seem to be in the midst of a solo show boomlet on Broadw…
Jean Smart plays an aspiring poet trapped in an abusive marriage in this cliché-ridden solo play. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
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Why, why, why has Jean Smart chosen to return to Broadway in this anemic, copy-and-paste star vehicle fit for the junkyard?Â
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-perso…
After a quarter-century absence, Jean Smart makes a welcome return to Broadway in the one-woman show Call Me Izzy, a glorified Lifetime movie about a middle-aged Louisiana woman who endures …
Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice. In playwright Jamie Wax's one-hander "Call Me Izzy," Jean Smart …
