This is a revival of the famous musical revue Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, which originally debuted at the Village Gate in 1968 and ran for more than four years. Four actors and ...

When the Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel had his American debut at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 4, 1965, his passionate lyrics and soulful delivery — by turns funny, poetic, heartbreaking, bitter, ...

The Gate theatre is in ruins. Craters in the plaster expose crumbling brickwork beneath, familiar columns are falling away and a yawning hole in the ceiling looks as though a bomb has torn through it.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Performances continue for "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris." Brel is a celebration of the life and art of one of the greatest French ...

Carousel: The Songs Of Jacques Brel celebrated what would have been the Belgian’s 80th birthday year, opening the Barbican’s Francophone season with six interpretive performances by featured artists, ...

Unlike the title of the enduring musical revue that just opened at ACT Theatre, Jacques Brel is not alive and well and living in Paris. But the sardonic, wise and intensely emotive songs of this ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IN RETROSPECT it may seem obvious that John Waters would be seduced by the songs of Jacques Brel, which he sings in a show devoted to ...

Jacques Brel was one of the great representatives of French chanson in the post-World War II period. Born into a bourgeois family, Brel rejected the future awaiting him in his father’s cardboard ...

We were well into the concert when Jacqui Dark barely breathed, “Ne me quitte pas.” Suddenly, after five months, you remembered why live music beats recorded music: you were no longer just another ...

In the pantheon of 20th century music icons it is almost unheard of to discover, decades later, new fly-on-the wall insights to the artist's most controversial period. Fans of Jacques Brel, the ...

Jacques Brel would have been 80 this year. To all fans and admirers of this unique singer-songwriter, this will be an extraordinarily poignant thought, following hard on last year’s even sadder ...