Girl from the North Country Tickets at the Gielgud Theatre, London. 1934. Culture > Theatre & Dance > Reviews Girl from the North Country, Old Vic, London, review: The idea is inspired and the treatment piercingly beautiful. After critically-acclaimed, smash-hit runs at the Public Theater and the West End, Girl From The North Country brings its rousing spirit to Broadway. For a musical it wasn't looking good. Tickets available now. Standing at a turning point in their lives, they realize nothing is what it seems. Set to an incredible soundtrack of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s music, this tale of despair and dreams opens at the Gielgud Theatre. Girl from the North Country returns to the West End. In what Ben Brantley of The New York Times raves is “as close as mortals come to heaven on earth,” GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY is set at a guesthouse where a group of wanderers cross paths. Latest theatre reviews . ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Back Home Again on Desolation Row Conor McPherson’s self-directed jukebox musical based on the songs of Bob Dylan moves to Broadway. Irish playwright and director Conor McPherson weaves songs from across the vast catalog of Bob Dylan into 'Girl From the North Country,' a poetic drama set in Minnesota during the Great Depression. For Dylan fans, it … (This Dylan-disciple theatre reviewer and her can't-name-one-of-his-songs companion enjoyed the show in equal abundance). Set to an incredible soundtrack of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s music, this tale of despair and dreams opens at the Gielgud Theatre. Its bright stars are more than 20 songs by Bob Dylan threading throughout the Depression-era story that’s now on stage at the Belasco Theatre.. Girl From the North Country is a kind of musical palimpsest, a prism through which to view a familiar body of work from an unusual but enchanting perspective. Following earlier runs at the Old Vic in London and Off-Broadway at the Public Theater, the show arrives on Broadway four years after … Only a song can shake off the dust for one group of wayward souls—and old dreams may hold the promise of new beginnings. Rae Smith's set is of the minimal, deconstructed variety (musical instruments scattered around an empty stage… So moody and moving it can hurt, Girl from the North Country is the thinking theatergoer’s jukebox musical. Conor McPherson’s dazzling musical Girl from the North Country returns to the West End this year after previous engagements at the Noel Coward Theatre. This stunning work by Conor McPherson is accompanied by the songs of Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan Musical Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Opened July 26 – Variety A time-weathered guesthouse in the heartland of America. 346 customer reviews. Don't miss tickets to the West End return of Girl from the North Country. The Girl from the North Country, Gielgud Theatre, review: an enchanting new perspective on Bob Dylan's songs ... it has returned to London’s West End with a … You can practically see the tumbleweeds blowing through the hearts of the characters in “Girl From the North Country.” This achingly beautiful musical weds the songs of Bob Dylan to a book, by Conor McPherson, that explores the unsettled destinies of the denizens of a boarding house in Duluth, Minn., during the Great Depression.