NEW YORK (AP) – Joely Richardson is coming back to a New York stage in something she never thought she’d do – a one-woman show.
The English actress known for the TV shows “The Tudors” and “Nip/Tuck” will play poet Emily Dickinson in William Luce’s play “The Belle of Amherst.”
“Never say never,” Richardson said. “I always swore to myself that I would never do a one-woman show. I thought, ‘That’s for crazy people.’ And then I read it.”
The play, directed by Steve Cosson, will begin performances Oct. 7 at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre, with an opening night set for Oct. 19. Tickets are now on sale.
In “The Belle of Amherst,” Dickinson acts as the narrator of her life story, welcoming audiences to her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the 1880s and looking back on her life. Dickinson’s most famous poems include “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” and “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers.”