Of particular note is her Tony-winning performance in "The Belle of Amherst", a one-woman play (written by William Luce and directed by Charles Nelson Reilly) based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson. She received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for the audio recording of the play. She first performed the play in 1976 and subsequently appeared in other solo shows, including Luce's "Brontë". Other Broadway credits include "The Playboy of the Western World", "Macbeth", "The Member of the Wedding", "A Shot in the Dark", "Skyscraper", "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little", "Forty Carats", "The Glass Menagerie", "A Doll's House", "The Gin Game", and a North American tour in 1992 of "Lettice and Lovage" in the lead part originated by Maggie Smith on Broadway.