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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 –  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…

A new musical featuring the songs of Bob Dylan and productions starring Glenn Close, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge will be among the 2018-19 offerings of Off Broadway’s Public Theater. The West End hit Girl From the North Country, written and directed by Conor McPherson and featuring music from Dylan’s songbook…

Abramorama and Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings will premiere Jennifer Lebeau’s Bob Dylan concert documentary Trouble No More with Landmark Theatres, screening the film for one night only on Thursday, November 2. Trouble No More, which intersperses concert footage from Dylan’s 1980-ear Gospel period with sermons…

UPDATE with more info: Robert Zimmerman, the favorite son of Hibbing, MN who became the shape-shifting voice of several generations as the songwriter, poet, scriptwriter, disc jockey, sculptor, painter, author and rebel Bob Dylan, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday morning in Stockholm, Sweden. The…

Last night's penultimate broadcast of Late Show With David Letterman clocked a household 4.9/12 in metered markets – its best local rating since September 21, 2009. With Bill Murray bursting from a cake and Bob Dylan “crooning” a ’40s tune made popular by Frank Sinatra, Letterman’s early ratings jumped 48% from last…

The Lost Tapes: The Basement Tapes Continued is an engaging documentary that, as my video review above says, is well worth watching even if you're not a big Bob Dylan fan. The film debuts at 9 PM Friday on Showtime and clocks in at nearly two hours. It’s helmed by Sam Jones, the director and photographer whose…