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 ...

The Jaeb Theater show presents the songs of one of the century's finest composers as one-act plays. People who go see The World of Jacques Brel at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Jaeb Theater will ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The song that floats so beautifully down the telephone line from New York is at once familiar and deeply strange. The tune and phrasing ...

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 ...

“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 ...

So the Rapture didn’t occur on Saturday. But one might have thought the world was about to end — and good riddance, too — from the show that Two River Theater Company opened that night. It’s “Jacques ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The problem with an entire evening of Brel is that it starts to feel like ...

Most often we like a song because of its music. Especially those songs whose words we do not follow but still get hooked to its catchy tune. “If one understands the words, the effect is magical,” ...

With its disreputable location and junkyard decor, the Zipper proves the dream setting for this timely revival of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," which introduced Yanks to Brel's ...