Girl from the North Country continues at The Old Vic Theatre, London until 23 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For all the snobbiness around Mamma Mia!, it sure did nail what a jukebox musical should be. ABBA’s music was always about fun and wide appeal as much as it was about […]
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Old Vic encore for Girl from the North Country
The critically acclaimed Olivier and Tony Award-winning Girl from the North Country will return to The Old Vic for a strictly limited nine-week season this summer.
Girl From the North Country – New Wimbledon Theatre
Girl From The North Country continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 18 March 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Girl from the North Country – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Girl From The North Country continues at Milton Keynes Theatre until 19 November 2022 and then tours until 18 March 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Girl From the North Country – Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury and Touring
Girl From the North Country continues until 20 August 2022 and then tours until 18 March 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It’s hard not to be seduced by the quality of the music in this show. Simon Hale’s arrangements of 20 Bob Dylan songs (dating from 1963 to 2012) are sensitive, […]
A Tony Awards Newsletter From New York
Mark Shenton offers a Broadway round-up of Tony-nominated musicals… The nominations for this year’s Tony Awards – due to be presented at Radio City Music Hall on 12 June 2022, hosted by West Side Story Oscar winner Ariana DeBose – were delayed this year. Usually they are announced a few days after the eligibility deadline […]
Cast for Girl From The Country’s first UK tour and Dublin season
Casting has been announced for the first UK tour and Dublin season of the critically acclaimed double Olivier Award-winning West End and Broadway production of Girl From The North Country. The cast includes Keisha Amponsa Banson (The Magician’s Elephant, RSC, School of Rock, Gillian Lynne Theatre), Ross Carswell (professional debut), Colin Connor (War Horse, National […]
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr – Crazy Coqs
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr at Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There are two types of people in the world. Some people – some lucky people – meet another while young, fall in love and live a happy life together soundtracked by all […]
Girl From The North Country returns to the UK as part of a major international tour
The award-winning hit production of Girl From The North Country, written and directed by celebrated playwright Conor McPherson (The Weir, The Seafarer) with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, will embark on its first UK tour following an opening five-week season at 3Olympia Theatre Dublin from 25 June 2022. The production will tour to Canterbury, […]
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr – Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel
Forgetful Heart: Dylan and Cohen and Love – Barb Jungr at Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Barb Jungr, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan. Three names that hovered in my musical consciousness. At the peak of the popularity of Dylan and Cohen my musical interests lay in other directions. […]
Girl from the North Country – Gielgud Theatre, London
Girl from the North Country continues at the Gielgud Theatre until 1 February 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When it opened at The Old Vic in 2017 (transferring into the West End the following year), Conor McPherson’s tale of Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota was truly something very special. Its use of music […]
West End return for Girl From The North Country
The Old Vic’s critically acclaimed world premiere production of Girl From The North Country will return to the West End for an eight-week run beginning in December. Written and directed by multi award winning playwright Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) and featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, the production will play the Gielgud Theatre […]
Girl From the North Country – Public Theater, New York
Girl From the North Country continues at the Public Theater, New York until 23 December 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Who knows what prompted the overseers of the Bob Dylan song catalogue to turn to Conor McPherson and suggest he make a musical using whatever of those songs he wanted? […]
Girl From the North Country – Noel Coward Theatre
Girl From the North Country continues at the Noël Coward Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The origins of Girl From the North Country, as retold in the programme notes, do not sound like your typical musical. Playwright Conor McPherson was approached by Bob Dylan’s record company, inviting him to construct […]
Old Vic’s Girl From the North Country transfers to the West End
The Old Vic’s critically-acclaimed world premiere production of Girl From the North Country will head for the West End for a strictly limited season at the end of December. Written and directed by multi award-winning playwright Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) and featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, the production which features a 20-strong […]
Girl From the North Country cast album to be released
The Old Vic has joined forces with Sony Music Entertainment to release the original cast recording of the world premiere production of Girl From the North Country. Written and directed by multi award-winning playwright Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) and featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, the production is currently in the middle of […]
Girl from the North Country – The Old Vic
Girl from the North Country runs at The Old Vic, London until 7 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Weir playwright Conor McPherson has ‘teamed up’ with singer, songwriter and recent Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan to create – and direct – a dark and mesmerising piece of theatre set […]
Girl From the North Country premiere at the Old Vic – casting revealed
Casting has been announced for The Old Vic’s world premiere of Girl From the North Country which is due to begin previews on 10 July ahead of a press night on 26 July. Written and directed by multi award-winning playwright Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) and featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, the production […]
The Fortress of Solitude – The Public Theater, New York
The Fortress of Solitude contnues at The Public Theater, New York until 16 November. The Public Theater, one of New York’s most esteemed and venerable not-for-profit theatre companies has been stretching the boundaries of musical theatre for decades. In the 1960s and 1970s, it made theatrical history – and lucrative Off-Broadway to Broadway transfers – with […]
This Wheel’s On Fire – Barb Jungr – Crazy Coqs
This Wheel’s On Fire: Barb Jungr continues at Crazy Coqs, London, until 4 October. With more than half the 17 songs in Barb Jungr’s new show This Wheel’s On Fire either the work of Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen, this compilation is chiefly a further salute to those two great North American-Jewish wordsmiths whose flame […]
