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Call Me Izzy Star Jean Smart on the Role That Pulled Her Back to Broadway by Beth Stevens

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 private, never planning to share it. When her words do reach others, things begin to shift. "I thought it was an extraordinarily unique piece of writing," Smart told Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek on…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PM on July 9, 2025

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