This production is recommended for ages 14+.
Performance dates
30 June - 23 August 2025
Run time: 2hr 30min
Includes interval
344 reviews
Following a critically acclaimed season in 2017, Girl from the North Country returns to The Old Vic for a strictly limited 9-week run. Directed by Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson with music and lyrics by Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan, don’t miss your (second) chance to see this 5-star show.
Set in the Great Depression in Dylan’s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, Conor McPherson’s Bob Dylan musical, Girl from the North Country, follows the Laine family who are in over their heads and struggling to keep a roof over their heads. They open their home to lost people who are down on their luck in an effort to make ends meet. Nick Laine is trying to keep everything and everyone afloat. His wife is struggling with dementia, his adoptive daughter is pregnant, his son has been jilted.
With everyone trying desperately to change their prospects and secure a stable future for themselves, Nick thinks he might have found a way to make it all work out in the end. Come find out just who the girl from the north country is.
Main cast
It has been announced that Girl from the North Country will be coming to Delfont Mackintosh theatres’ Gielgud Theatre for a limited season before its transfer to Broadway. The show will return to the West End from 10 December 2019 to 1 February 2020 between runs at the Royal Alexandria Theatre, Toronto and New York’s Belasco Theater. Tickets for Girl from the North Country will be on sale Monday, 24 June.
21 Jun, 2019 | By Sarah Gengenbach
Bob Dylan musical Girl From The North Country is set to transfer to New York's Belasco Theater in February 2020, it has been confirmed. The Broadway transfer comes after an acclaimed Off-Broadway run at the Public Theater in New York (2018) and after two highly successful runs in London, including the world premiere at The Old Vic Theatre (2017) and a highly lauded run at the West End's Noel Coward Theatre (2017-2018). The original London production was nominated for five Olivier Awards and won two, including Best Actress in a Musical for Shirley Henderson and Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical for Sheila Atim, which is enough to make even the legendary John Gielgud proud. Many London theatre fans felt the award-winning musical ended too prematurely and a Girl From The North Country revival remains on many West End Wish Lists.
19 Jun, 2019 | By Nicholas Ephram Ryan Daniels
Girl From the North Country is the relentlessly melancholy story of a group of people living in America in the 1930s. The production (which feels like more of a play with music than a musical per se), is atmospheric and intimate, but ultimately misses the mark.
14 Feb, 2018 | By Harriet Wilson
There is always something exciting about the West End in the beginning of the year. With Christmas over and done with and there is a treat for all the lovers coming up very soon, something is needed to bridge the gap in theatreland. In situ for a spell at the delightful Noel Coward Theatre, Girl from the North Country is receiving rave reviews and leaving theatre-goers spellbound.
7 Feb, 2018 | By Kay Johal
Girl from the North Country, a cleverly crafted musical, presents us with multi-layered interrelated stories about the lives of people renting rooms in a boarding house in 1934 Minnesota. Writer-Director Conor McPherson’s intelligently written script encompasses at least 10 life-changing issues in the lives of the guests living and passing through the boarding house including: Jim Crow racism, The Great Depression, Mental illness including depression, Child abuse, Living with and caring for someone with Alzheimer’s, Adultery, Childhood Trauma, Teen Pregnancy, alcohol and drug misuse and addiction, and parent-carers of an adult child with severe learning disabilities.
26 Jan, 2018 | By Sandra Howell
I’m sure that you’ve been hearing murmurs about the world premiere of Girl from the North Country, the engaging new piece from esteemed playwright Conor McPherson featuring classic songs from Bob Dylan, but what is it all about?
14 Jun, 2017 | By Sarah Gengenbach
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