Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice.
In playwright Jamie Wax’s one-hander “Call Me Izzy,” Jean Smart returns to Broadway after more than two decades with a stunning and soulful performance of a character who discovers such a voice — one that offers her liberation, but at a cost.
Smart plays Isabelle Scutley, a rural Louisiana woman trapped from the age of 17 in an abusive marriage. But sustaining Izzy — her preferred monicker — is her ability to express her secret self through her private poetry. It’s when her writings go public that she
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