Overview

• Jean Smart returns to Broadway after a 25-year absence in Jamie Wax’s solo vehicle Call Me Izzy.
• Reviewers commend Smart’s nuanced depiction of an abused Louisiana trailer‐park poet who finds refuge in writing.
• Critics fault the play’s predictable narrative and reliance on Southern stereotypes for diluting its emotional resonance.
• Sarna Lapine’s direction and scene transitions have been widely criticized as disjointed and underwhelming.
• The one‐woman drama explores themes of abuse, poetry and escape but struggles with a confusing chronological structure.