George Clooney and Grant Heslov are set to board a feature adaptation of John Grisham's baseball-themed novel Calico Joe, with Clooney eyeing it as a potential directing vehicle. Clooney and Heslov will also produce under their Smokehouse Pictures banner alongside Bob Dylan's Grey Water Park Productions.
The script's…
Bob Dylan granted the New York Times writer Douglas Brinkley his first interview in years earlier this week, advancing his new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, which is out June 19.
The interview with the 79-year-old Dylan, a Minnesota native, came the day after George Floyd's death at the hands of the Minneapolis police…
He’s survived punk, disco, a deep dive into religion, the rise of boy bands and electronica, Soy Bomb and going electric. Now, 78-year-old Bob Dylan has again shown the young kids how it’s done, scoring his first No. 1 on any Billboard chart with his 17-minute song, “Murder Most Foul.”
As hard as it is to believe, the…
In case you hadn’t noticed over the last five or six decades, Bob Dylan can’t be contained, not by any particular genre, persona, creed or even voice, and the same can mostly be said forGirl From The North Country, the musical, written and directed by Conor McPherson, that transports the hits and deep-cuts of a…
EXCLUSIVE:Pose actor Austin Scott will join Broadway’s upcoming Girl From The North Country, completing the principal cast for playwright Conor McPherson’s so-called Bob Dylan musical that won raves and a sold-out Off Broadway run last year.
Scott, who has played the title character in both the Broadway and touring…
The widely acclaimed (and very large) Off Broadway cast of The Public Theater’s Girl From The North Country will reprise their roles when the production begins its Broadway run in February, producers announced today. Among those making the move are Mare Winningham, Marc Kudisch and Colton Ryan.
The musical, written…
Bob Dylan’s 1975 tour called the Rolling Thunder Revue long has been an intriguing, weird and mysterious chapter in rock and roll history since, well, about 1976 or so. Now no less a fan than Martin Scorsese is about to shed some light: Utilizing long-abandoned, now-restored footage and recent interviews – including…
Bob Dylan let his new whiskey do the talking during a pre-taped, unbilled appearance on last night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The bit came about 2/3 of the way through the show – after guest Jerry Seinfeld had already surprised the crowd by beginning Fallon’s monologue while the usual host was still…
Luca Guadagnino has given us summer Italian romance through Call Me By Your Name and supernatural dance academy conspiracies in the forthcoming remake of Suspiria. Now he is looking to tackle Bob Dylan. The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker is reteaming with RT Features for an adaptation of the legendary musician’s…
Mining Bob Dylan’s unrivaled songbook – even if he’d never written a tune beyond the 20 or so included in Off Broadway’s Girl From The North Country, his contribution to popular music would be assured –Â and wandering his spiritual map of a mythic Americana that conforms to no historical boundaries but feels…
Update with new Toronto info The American cast of the London hit musical Girl From The North Country was announced by Off Broadway’s Public Theater today, with Mare Winningham (The Affair) taking the role that won Scottish actress Shirley Henderson a 2018 Olivier Award.
Broadway veteran Stephen Bogardus will take the…
