You must make it to Studio 54 at 254 W 54th Street by Aug. 24 to see the consequential one-woman play “Call Me Izzy,” with its powerful portrayal of domestic violence. Jean Smart is stunningly brilliant as Izzy, a woman who lives in a trailer with her husband Burt, whom she married at the tender age of 17. For Izzy, the trailer has become a steel prison: a prison of her body, mind, dreams, intelligence, passions, and talents. This play, masterfully written by Jamie Wax, gives such a poignant story and a voice to women who, in real life, often don’t get to tell their stories. It has humor, anger, frustration, secrecy, and friendship. It also demonstrates that the women who experience domestic violence are definitely not limited to those living in trailer parks or in poverty.

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