Smart, who has been widely celebrated for her role as Deborah Vance in the HBO Max show Hacks, started her acting career in ...

At Broadway’s Studio 54, Jean Smart takes a break from winning Emmy Awards as a sharply dissatisfied comedian on “Hacks” to ...

Jamie Wax's new play treads all-too-familiar territory, but Emmy winner Smart ("Hacks") elevates the material and makes ...

The material fares better when Wax weaves Izzy’s plight with that of Jack and Irene Levitsberg, an affluent couple from New ...

The biggest challenge Jean Smart faces here is to overcome the fundamental familiarity of a moralistic script that gives us a ...

Jean Smart says returning to Broadway after 25 years for Jamie Wax's new play, 'Call Me Izzy' was 'very scary' for the Emmy-winning actress.

The show follows the friendship between Smart, 73, who stars as legendary Las Vegas comic Deborah Vance, and comedy writer ...

For star Jean Smart, the personal iconography wasn’t just geographic: she shares a key scene opposite Carol Burnett playing herself, commiserating with Deborah as only two trailblazing female ...

In “Call Me Izzy” and “Angry Alan,” patriarchy is a rigged game that everyone is losing. NEW YORK — A dramatic faceoff of ...

All three of those shows were among the top 5 earners for the week building up to the Tonys: Good Night, $4,331,226; Othello, ...

The “Hacks” star returns to Broadway after 25 years in a triumph for her, if not for the old-fashioned, flowery play about ...

For star Jean Smart, the personal iconography wasn't just geographic: she shares a key scene opposite Carol Burnett playing herself, commiserating with Deborah as only two trailblazing female ...