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

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

The great Jean Smart is in full control of her every last Designing Women sitcom skill and Mare of Easttown drama chop as she delivers a tour de force in Broadway‘s Call Me Izzy, a one-person comedy-drama that begins with laughs and ends with something as utterly harrowing as anything I’ve seen on stage in months.