Jamie Wax's new play treads all-too-familiar territory, but Emmy winner Smart ("Hacks") elevates the material and makes Izzy’s story feel fresh.

Returning to the scene of an uproarious crime, Everyman Theatre revives Charles Ludlam's cross-dressing farce The Mystery of ...

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 ...

Jean Smart is dominating Emmy conversations once again thanks to her dynamic role in Hacks, but theater fans are currently ...

Jean Smart says returning to Broadway after 25 years for Jamie Wax's new play, 'Call Me Izzy' was 'very scary' for the ...

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 ...

Smart, who has been widely celebrated for her role as Deborah Vance in the HBO Max show Hacks, started her acting career in off-Broadway roles, and this is her first return to the stage since she ...

Jean Smart stars in “Call Me Izzy” on Broadway. Emilio Madrid. The play is dull and unchallenging. Outside of a surprise run-in with a professor — the show’s one hearty laugh that then ...

Emmy-winning ‘Hacks’ star Jean Smart performs in Jamie Wax’s solo play about a small-town Louisiana woman struggling with an ...

In “Call Me Izzy” and “Angry Alan,” patriarchy is a rigged game that everyone is losing. NEW YORK — A dramatic faceoff of Judith Butler proportions is underway on New York stages, where a pair of star ...

Jean Smart in "Call Me Izzy" at Studio 54 in New York. (Emilio Madrid) All that is to say “Call Me Izzy” is not a total bust, especially given Smart’s formidable acting chops.

"Hacks" star Jean Smart makes "Call Me Izzy" worth seeing, even if the lackluster drama can't match her extraordinary talent.