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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The next day, Jimmy Kimmel is literally waiting for Deborah at her parking spot, ready to push into her personal space and shake her down. “KB’s not doing your show,” he says bluntly ...

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, ...