Plus, Jean Smart's return to Call Me Izzy led to box office improvements.

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While greeting fans outside the stage door of her Broadway show Call Me Izzy, Jean Smart left her mark on one lucky fan, by request. In a now-viral Instagram video posted Friday, a fan asked the Emmy-winning ac…

Jean Smart has returned to Call Me Izzy on Broadway following a brief leave of absence after a knee injury. After Johanna Day filled in during her absence, the Emmy winner thanks the audience for coming to the …

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What goes into crafting the words that make up our favorite Broadway shows? How do Broadway playwrights and book writers make our favorite characters shine and our favorite scenes come alive? BroadwayWorld is f…

What goes into crafting the words that make up our favorite Broadway shows? How do Broadway playwrights and book writers make our favorite characters shine and our favorite scenes come alive? BroadwayWorld is f…

Jean Smart extends in ‘Call Me Izzy,’; Szot, Jones, Wolfe to join ‘Hadestown’; Cherry Lane to reopen in September Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping …

Jean Smart will return to the solo show on July 22.

Jean Smart has extended her run in Call Me Izzy on Broadway, now playing at Studio 54 through August 24. Smart returns to the play on July 22, following a brief leave of absence due to a knee injury. Two-ti…

Johanna Day has been filling in for Emmy winner Smart, who has been sidelined with a knee injury.

Jean Smart will return to her acclaimed performance in Broadway’s Call Me Izzy on on Tuesday, July 22, following a two-week leave of absence due to a knee injury. Producers also announced that the solo play w…

Tony Award Nominee and six-time Emmy Award winner Jean Smart will extend her run in Call Me Izzy on Broadway, now through August 24. Smart returns to the play on Tuesday, July 22, following a brief leave of abs…

“Gypsy” starring Audra McDonald is closing early, on August 1th This abrupt announcement came tonight. Despite great reviews, “Gypsy” has struggled to keep an audience. The musical played at 61% capacit…

Headliner Jean Smart is currently out of the show due to a knee injury.

The 2025 Emmy nominations were announced today, and a bevy of Broadway alums top the list. Jean Smart, a six-time winner and current star of the solo play Call Me Izzy, earned yet another nomination for Outs…

Broadway box office was on the rebound last week, with the total gross for the 30 productions up about 8% over the previous week, with a tally of $32,813,389. Attendance of 260,530 held even, leaving a $9 uptic…

The solo show serves as the Broadway debut for playwright Jamie Wax.

Jean Smart will be out of additional performances of Call Me Izzy on Broadway due to a knee injury. Previously set to be out of the show from July 8 to 11, it has been revealed that two-time Tony Award nominee …

Call Me Izzy – 12 July 2025 I attended a performance in which Johanna Day played the role of Izzy. It seems like it would be a daunting task for one woman to create an entire world on a big Broadway stage, bu…

She just needed to convince her two sons to spend the summer in New York City.

Six-time Emmy winner Jean Smart has spent the past few years on the HBO series Hacks. But that wasn't the only thing she was doing. In between seasons, Smart had been trying to get back to Broadway in Call Me I…

Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek sits down with Jean Smart to discuss her stage return in CALL ME IZZY. Get tickets to CALL ME IZZY: https://www.broadway.com/shows/call-me-izzy/

Jean Smart is back on Broadway for the first time in 25 years in Call Me Izzy, Jamie Wax’s solo play about a woman in rural Louisiana whose life has been shaped by poverty and violence. Izzy writes poetry in …

When it's summer in the city, there's no better way to beat the heat than with a Broadway show. See what's treading the boards in the latest episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal.  Tony nominee and …

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

Vosk and Hilty to return to their shows, Smart to miss ‘Call Me Izzy’ performances, Iglehart to join ‘& Juliet’ ‘Take Me Out’ playwright Richard Greenberg dies, Rudin to produce new Laurie Metca…

The new play by Jamie Wax runs at Studio 54.

Broadway wilted a bit in last week’s summer heat, with 23 of 30 shows taking a hit at the box office, some significantly. No doubt playing a part in Broadway’s overall decline last week was the July 4th hol…

The solo show serves as the Broadway debut for playwright Jamie Wax.

Jean Smart is out of her solo Broadway play Call Me Izzy this week due to a knee injury. An Instagram message on the show’s official page says, “We look forward to having her back on stage as soon as she re…

Jean Smart, who is currently starring in the world premiere production of Call Me Izzy on Broadway, will be out of the show due to a knee injury. The official Instagram account for the show shared, "We look for…

Cole Escola, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and more have been recognized for their work at GALECA's 16th Dorian TV Awards. GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and the Dorian Awards honor the best…

Isabelle Scutley is the main character in a new Broadway play that stars a riveting Jean Smart. She prefers to be called “Izzy” even though her husband Ferd disapproves. Fred is also psychologically and phy…

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Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan discuss her performance in the solo drama.

“Izzy’s Project” began on June 17.

At the end of Season 4 of “Hacks,” there’s a rumor that Debra Vance (played by the incredibly funny, talented Jean Smart) is dead. I’m here to report that she isn’t dead. In fact, Smart is alive and w…

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Beau the Musical, The Wash @ NFT at WP Theater, Dancers Over 40 Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Chicago @ 54 Below, Call Me Izzy @ Studio 54, …

Writer Jamie Wax is making his Broadway debut with Call Me Izzy, the new one-woman play starring Jean Smart. With the show now running at Studio 54, Wax stopped by CBS News to chat about the production, which h…

Starring Jean Smart, the work centers on a woman trapped in an abusive marriage who finds possible escape through writing poetry.

Call Me Izzy will launch Izzy’s Project, a social impact campaign designed to extend the conversation beyond the stage and offer real-time resources and opportunities to spark reflection, dialogue, and action…

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‘Call Me Izzy’ starring Jean Smart opens on Broadway, ‘Spelling Bee’ announces New York return, is JamieLloyd’s ‘Evita’ just ‘Sunset 2.0’? Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the firs…

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The Emmy-winning Hacks star has returned to Broadway, and to using a Southern accent.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is June 16, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend. But first... This Week's Call Sheet Sunday, June 22 The Las…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical @ Signature Theatre, The Garland Show @ The Hopkinton Center for the Arts (Hopkinton, MA), C…

The stars came out for Smart's return to Broadway.

Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress Jean Smart took her first Broadway bows in the world premiere production of Call Me Izzy. Go inside curtain call in new photos of the star on stage! Written b…

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 August 17, 2025. Check …

Portraying the eponymous Izzy--or Isabelle per the formal preference of a long-ago teacher--the charismatic Smart earns our rapt attention throughout the play, though she cannot begin to overcome a first-person…

Six-time Emmy-winning ‘Hacks’ star returns to the Broadway stage for first time since her Tony-nominated role in the 2000 revival of ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’

Smart deserves roles that deserve her. Izzy is not one of them.

Call Me Izzy, a one-woman play written by Jamie Wax and directed by Sarna Lapine, celebrated its Broadway opening on June 12. Tony nominee and six-time Emmy winner Jean Smart performs the solo show at Studio 5…

By David Sheward June 13, 2025: Even though there is much that is familiar in Call Me Izzy, Jamie Wax’s new solo play at Studio 54, its star Jean Smart gives it a unique individual life. The storyline is no…

Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . No, Jean Smart, the star of Call Me Izzy, now at Broadway’s Studio 54, does not portray a Borough Park yeshivah boy in this one-woman play. The Izzy she plays is Isabel, a tr…

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 August 17, 2025. Read t…

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 this heart-wrenching …

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, her biggest secret, and …

Returning to Broadway after 25 years in “Call Me Izzy,” which opened Thursday at Studio 54, Jean Smart crushes it in the good way. The post Jean Smart, Gritty and Poetic in ‘Call Me Izzy’ appeared first…

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. The post Jean Smart Welcomes In The New Broad…

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 than subject her char…

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 and the characters Sma…

After a mawkish beginning, the play somewhat redeems itself through earned emotions and an ambiguous ending that begs discussion. It’s never wise to bet against Smart, who ultimately deserves a far better veh…

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.  She simply transforms over and over again as she slips into each chapter and character …

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 returns to Bro…

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.

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. I tend to get di…

★★★★☆ Sarna Lapine directs the six-time Emmy winner soloing as a talented but oppressed trailer-park housewife The post Call Me Izzy: Jean Smart Extremely Smart in Smart Jamie Wax Character Study appe…

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 Broadway, with establish…

Jean Smart plays an aspiring poet trapped in an abusive marriage in this cliché-ridden solo play. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Call Me Izzy at Studio 54 appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

Why, why, why has Jean Smart chosen to return to Broadway in this anemic, copy-and-paste star vehicle fit for the junkyard? 

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 comedy-drama tha…