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Broadway Review: “Call Me Izzy” at Studio 54 (Closed Sunday, August 17, 2025)

July 7, 2025 | Uncategorized > | "Call Me Izzy", Costumes by Tom Broecker, Emilio Madrid, Howard Tilkin serves as Production Stage Manager, Jamie Wax, Jean Smart, Johanna Day, Joseph Verlezza, lighting by Donald Holder, New York Theatre Reviews, Original Music by T Bone Burnett and David Mansfield, Sarna Lapine, Settings by Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams, Sound by Beth Lake, Studio 54, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

Isabelle Scutley is the main character in a new Broadway play that stars a riveting Jean Smart. She prefers to be called “Izzy” even though her husband Ferd disapproves. Fred is also psychologically and physically abusive, hindering Izzy’s artistic and academic endeavors. To avoid confrontation and harm she is often found in the bathroom, scribbling her poetry on sheets of…

Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stage’s “Little Women” at Cherry Lane Theatre

“I can’t abide seeing a body stuffed into the wrong role.” – Jo to Meg in “Little Women” Kate Hamill’s retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” plays at Primary Stages at an auspicious time. Amid unprecedented national and political division, issues of gender identity, gender equality, and gender protection continue to be critically important. Individual rights and freedoms are…