In The Belle of Amherst, Emily Dickinson welcomes audiences into her lifelong Amherst homestead in mid-19th century Massachusetts. While Dickinson found solace in solitude through much of her life, acclaimed playwright William Luce weaves her poems, diaries, and letters into one-woman portrait of America’s greatest and most prolific poet, mixing Dickinson’s encounters with close friends and family with the poet’s own. “Full of passion and poetry and heart” (NY Daily News), The Belle of Amherst begins a limited engagement October 7 with performances through January 25, 2015.