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, ...

She spins, she pirouettes, right, left, forwards and backwards, in a gray jacket, then a white one, in trousers, in underwear, and sometimes without. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker twirls constantly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Long before the bright lights dimmed and both the audience and cast members took their respective places in Mansfield’s intimate Black Box Theater on a tranquil Sunday afternoon, it was readily ...

(Original cast of off-Broadway show: Columbia D2S-779). Brel’s sardonic French songs retain a great deal of their point and wit when adapted into English for an offBroadway revue. In fact they’re even ...