Jean Smart will return to her acclaimed performance in Broadway‘s Call Me Izzy on on Tuesday, July 22, following a two-week leave of absence due to a knee injury. Producers also announced that the ...

Jean 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 stage as soon as ...

There isn’t a great deal of originality in Jamie Wax’s new play, Call Me Izzy, but it may well mark the first time a white porcelain toilet has been featured so prominently in a Broadway production.

Smart’s considerable stage presence isn’t enough to salvage this production. Photo: Marc J. Franklin However, there is, it must be noted, enough of an outline here to make Izzy worthy of a rewrite.