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"The Belle of Amherst" is Far Too Modest by Broadway & Me

The playwright William Luce has made a career out of writing one-person shows about famous literary women from Isak Dinesen to Lillian Hellman but his most famous creation is certainly The Belle of Amherst, a play about the poet Emily Dickinson that he wrote back in 1976 for Julie Harris and for which she famously won her fifth Tony Award.Harris toured the play for years and even did it for PBS but I somehow never sa…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:47PM on November 12, 2014

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