McPherson’s discursive humanism exactly suits both O’Reilly’s light directorial touch and the confident realism of his ...

Read our review of *Girl from the North Country*, written and directed by Conor McPherson, now in performances at the Old Vic ...

Nick’s fearsomely straight-talking wife Elizabeth (Katie Brayben) is suffering from some form of dementia, his wannabe writer son Gene (Colin Bates) has taken to drink and his adopted daughter ...

Read our review of Girl from the North Country at London’s Old Vic: triumphant return for Conor McPherson’s impressionistic ...

Conor McPherson is the writer and director of “Girl From the North County,” which tells a tale set in 1930s Minnesota that’s aided by the songs of Bob Dylan. (Emilio Madrid) ...

When Conor McPherson’s Girl From the North Country was first staged in 2017, its combination of foot-tapping Bob Dylan ...

Conor McPherson has written 12 shows including St. Nicholas (Playwright), The Weir (Playwright), This Lime Tree Bower (Playwright), Dublin Carol (Playwright), Shining City ...

When Conor McPherson’s Girl From the North Country was first staged in 2017, its combination of foot-tapping Bob Dylan ...

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Writer-director Conor McPherson explains how he pieced together the acclaimed jukebox musical “Girl From the North Country,” at the Kennedy Center starting Dec. 12.

Shortly after he agreed to write a play inspired by the music of Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson received 40 of Dylan’s albums in the mail. “It was completely surreal and very Dylan,” the Irish ...

McPherson’s play with music is set in Duluth, Minnesota — Dylan’s birthplace — in 1934 (seven years before he was born). It’s the Great Depression, and the Lane family, led by patriarch ...