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 ...

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.

Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice. Though Wax sometimes writes in all-too-familiar trauma territory — the ...