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 ...

The Gate theatre is in ruins. Craters in the plaster expose crumbling brickwork beneath, familiar columns are falling away and a yawning hole in the ceiling looks as though a bomb has torn through it.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Performances continue for "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris." Brel is a celebration of the life and art of one of the greatest French ...

Head to the Rising Sun Arts Centre on Saturday and you can enjoy a musical night with a difference. Caversham-based singer and acclaimed musical biographer Alan Clayson will be making a return to the ...

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 ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 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 ...

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 ...

We were well into the concert when Jacqui Dark barely breathed, “Ne me quitte pas.” Suddenly, after five months, you remembered why live music beats recorded music: you were no longer just another ...

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 ...