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 ...

A cabaret of songs by the Belgian master of modern “chanson.” Known for his devastatingly personal, heart-wrenching lyrics, but also for his scathingly sarcastic depiction of society, Jacques Brel and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steel River Playhouse’s current production “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well … and Living in Paris,” delivers some of the most powerful and poignant music of the 20th century by one of the best ...

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, ...

CD is Jazz/Cabaret Vocalist/Composer's Eighth Release and Pays Homage to Legendary French Singer-Songwriter Jacques Brel “In her presence you get that rare whiff of greatness," says The New York Times ...