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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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These swerves of impulses could easily go off the tracks but the combination of the steady direction of Sarna Lapine ("Sunday in the Park With George") and Smart's riveting performance make …
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…
The play is dull and unchallenging. Outside of a surprise run-in with a professor " the show's one hearty laugh that then gets overused " the story unfurls in the most obvious, stay-on-the-r…
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 deserve…
Fresh off the success of the fourth season of Hacks, Jean Smart is vibrant, tough, and matter-of-factly, darkly funny as Izzy in a way that has the audience alternating laughs and gasps of h…
Smart, returning to Broadway after some 25 years, brings astonishing clarity and depth to the part. Spinning an enticing yarn from shopworn material " the action is set in 1989, when it may …
Ana GarcÃa dreams of flying away. But when her family's East Los Angeles garment business receives a make-or-break order for 200 dresses, Ana finds herself juggling her own ambitions, her…
What buoys it is an extremely likable cast, riding the waves of a hummable score that sounds variously of Mexico, Broadway and American pop. (The music director is Roberto Sinha.) And it doe…
We gossip, stitch and sweat alongside them, fully immersed in director Sergio Trujillo's heart-expanding, joy-swollen production " yet another landmark expansion of the "Real Women" canon.
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Cordoba, with her sweet, expressive face, is the kind of ingenue who's easy to root for, and builds easy rapport with her family, chosen and biological. The musical trusts her to deliver, an…
As pertinent as that notion is, it's just one empowering theme in this triumphant musical. While some might find the plot to be all-over-the-place, it's about Ana's experience. Serving as a …
But politics comes most alive through the personal, and the heart of the musical lies in its characters' dreams: those that conflict with others, those that are deferred and, most poignantly…
Directed and choreographed with plenty of energy by Sergio Trujillo, this is a musical that does what it sets out to do and, by weight of circumstance, then some. It's got plenty of bubbly, …
While the hardship and terror of living in constant fear of a knock on the door or a tap on your shoulder is repeatedly conveyed in Real Women, the musical somehow flattens the experience wi…
In a time when immigrants are being actively dehumanized throughout the United States, Real Women Have Curves provides a vital counterpoint"partly by depicting the dreams and fears of immigr…
The show's vibe of joy and strength is crystallized in a final parade of Estela's winningly glamorous creations (designed by Wilberth Gonzalez and Paloma Young), underlining again the affirm…
DEAD OUTLAW is the darkly hilarious and wildly inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw-turned-corpse-turned-celebrity Elmer McCurdy. As Elmer's body finds even more outlandi…
That's the gorgeously perverse opening of "Dead Outlaw," the feel-good musical of the season, if death and deadpan feel good to you. As directed by David Cromer, in another of his daringly p…
With its cast fully intact, Dead Outlaw comes to Broadway just as pointed and playful as it was during its acclaimed off-Broadway run last year. While so much has already been said about thi…
An unmistakable sign that musical theater is entering a thrilling new era of unlikely stories told in unexpected ways, Dead Outlaw seems destined to join the ranks of Oklahoma! and Gypsy as …
Following its well-received Off Broadway run produced by Audible last year, the musical retains its wickedness, vibrancy and nerve, as well as its extraordinary ensemble of actors. It also h…
