The Belgian singer-songwriter known as Jacques Brel does not get nearly enough credit for his influence on the popular music of the latter half of the 20th century and beyond. I’d argue that’s because ...

Charlotte’s Off-Broadway is taking audiences back to 1973 with its next production, a groovy evening of Jacques Brel songs inspired by Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, featuring an ...

The cast of "Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living in Paris" at the Gloucester Stage Company. (Gary Ng) Four singers inhabited a collection of French and Belgian characters — two middle-aged and ...

In January 1968, when the show Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris was first mounted, at the Village Gate in New York City, The New York Times’ critic Dan Sullivan was not overly ...

Jacques Brel would have been 80 this year and to celebrate, David Caulter and the Barbican organised a birthday bash inviting Brel fans such as Marc Almond, Diamada Galas and Camille O’Sullivan to ...

Buttressed by Arnold Johnston’s sharp new translations of the songs, this well-wrought tribute to the Belgian cabaret genius feels brighter and more vibrant than the better-known revue Jacques Brel Is ...

“I’d heard of Piaf before, and I think I’d heard of Brel, but I didn’t know what it was,” Byron Jones says. The North Carolina native had lived and studied in France and earned degrees in both French ...

The problem with an entire evening of Brel is that it starts to feel like eating 14 such rich desserts in a row. Delicious? Absolutely. But eventually, it's just too much. This is the challenge master ...

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, ...