Sunday, July 13, 2025
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 bi…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:13AMThursday, July 10, 2025
She just needed to convince her two sons to spend the summer in New York City.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:36AMSix-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 B…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:23AMBroadway.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/
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:12AMWednesday, July 9, 2025
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. Iz…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:06PMWhen 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.�…
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SOURCE: YouTube at 10:12AMVosk 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 prod…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMTuesday, July 8, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:56PMThe solo show serves as the Broadway debut for playwright Jamie Wax.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:42PMJean 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 sta…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:56PMJean 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36PMCole 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 A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMMonday, July 7, 2025
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 psy…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:43AMTuesday, July 1, 2025
Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 6/29/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section.
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48PMSaturday, June 28, 2025
Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan discuss her performance in the solo drama.
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMMonday, June 23, 2025
Sunday, June 22, 2025
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, …
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SOURCE: YouTube at 06:00PMPeter 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 M…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PMFriday, June 20, 2025
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…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18PMStarring Jean Smart, the work centers on a woman trapped in an abusive marriage who finds possible escape through writing poetry.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMWednesday, June 18, 2025
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, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:18PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 6/15/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section.
Also, you will find information on each show's historical …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PM‘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�…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 07:55AMMonday, June 16, 2025
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SOURCE: YouTube at 09:17PMThe Emmy-winning Hacks star has returned to Broadway, and to using a Southern accent.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:24PMRise 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
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SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AMSunday, June 15, 2025
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 Art…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 04:00PMSaturday, June 14, 2025
The stars came out for Smart's return to Broadway.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:12PMFriday, June 13, 2025
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…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMThe 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 Aug…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:54PMPortraying 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 ove…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:13PMSix-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’
SOURCE: www.the-independent.com at 01:24PMCall 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 s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMBy 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.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:51AMReview 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 p…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:15AM 
