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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. 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 the ...

Rhinebeck — In a rare departure from their accustomed repertoire, members of the Gilbert & Sullivan Musical Theatre Company bravely chunneled from 19th-century England to 20th-century France where ...

Jacques Brel’s rise to legendary status in the English speaking world was achieved posthumously and by stealth. Type his name into the UK Official Charts’ search engine for instance, and your total ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In any list of famous Belgians – a category that wags of other nationalities delight in mocking – Jacques Brel ...