“Girl From the North Country,” a musical that uses the songs of Bob Dylan to illuminate the heartache and hard times facing Depression-era denizens of a Midwestern boardinghouse, is coming to Broadway.

The show is written and directed by Conor McPherson, an Irish playwright who has had three previous plays on Broadway, “The Weir,” “Shining City” and “The Seafarer.” It is scheduled to begin performances Feb. 7 and to open March 5 at the Belasco Theater.

Set in Duluth, Minn., in 1934 — seven years before Mr. Dylan was born there — the show is a work of fiction that explores the themes and ideas suggested by the songwriter’s music.

“It’s about how people are trying to deal with being alive in the world, and struggling to fulfill their dreams, and it invites the bigger questions — the stuff of plays and art and songs,” Mr. McPherson said. “And it feels like a lot of the uncertainties of the 1930s seem to be back — the sense of destabilization that was around then, where people feel a little unsafe. That time speaks to our time, for sure.”