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Jean Smart Welcomes In The New Broadway Season With The Remarkable ‘Call Me Izzy’ – Review
Deadline's review of Broadway's 'Call Me Izzy' starring Jean Smart.
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 that begins with laughs and ends with something as utterly harrowing as anything I’ve seen on stage in months. Written by Jamie Wax, a playwright who also has been a CBS News correspondent for more than a decade, Call Me Izzy certainly has the grit and unflinching honesty that a reporter might bring to a tale of domestic abuse, but Smart, guided by the excellent and sensitive director Sarna Lapine, instills in this claustrophobic tale – the action rarely leaves Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams’s flawlessly designed, oxygen-free motor home – an openness of spirit, an unending belief in the survival mechanism of humor and, more than anything, a tenaciousness that can only be called life. Title: Call Me Izzy Venue: Broadway’s Studio 54 Written By: Jamie Wax Directed by: Sarna Lapine Cast: Jean Smart Running time: 1 hrs 25 min (no intermission)
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