Girl from the North Country
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Music Styles, Musicals, Theatre, Performing Arts
| Author: | Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson | ISBN: | 9781559368827 |
| Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group | Publication: | November 20, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Theatre Communications Group | Language: | English |
| Author: | Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson |
| ISBN: | 9781559368827 |
| Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group |
| Publication: | November 20, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Theatre Communications Group |
| Language: | English |
• World premiere in the spring of 2017 at The Old Vic theatre in London
• Includes 16 Dylan songs, including classics like: "Just Like A Woman, Like a Rolling Stone, I Want You, Ballad of a Thin Man, Slow Train Coming, Love Sick, and Forever Young"
• He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame.
• The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
• In May 2012, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
• In 2016, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
• Conor McPherson is hailed by the New York Times as “quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation”
• His play The Weir won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for 1999.
• One of the most popular Irish playwrights in the U.S.
• World premiere in the spring of 2017 at The Old Vic theatre in London
• Includes 16 Dylan songs, including classics like: "Just Like A Woman, Like a Rolling Stone, I Want You, Ballad of a Thin Man, Slow Train Coming, Love Sick, and Forever Young"
• He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame.
• The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
• In May 2012, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
• In 2016, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
• Conor McPherson is hailed by the New York Times as “quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation”
• His play The Weir won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for 1999.
• One of the most popular Irish playwrights in the U.S.
