Jacques Brel News

ITALIAN cabaret performer Ennio Marchetto and a Korean production of Hamlet headline the Adelaide Festival Centre's 2010 program.

The tradition of singer-songwriters is long and there are many bright lights among them through the centuries.

CABARET diva Karen Egan returns to the Island Arts Centre next week with her new show, La Charlatanne.

Genre: Coming-of-Age Comedy/Drama Directed by: Lone Scherfig Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike "I'm going to Paris, and I'm going to smoke and wear black and listen to Jacques Brel," announces schoolgirl Jenny early on in Lone Scherfig's An Education - a funny, touching, often ...

Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard: She's sensational; he's tall, dark and smarmy.

Globe/T. Rob Brown: Gerrie Ellen-Johnston, Matt Ryan, Kenny Timbrel and Rebecca Luebber rehearse a musical number from A'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.A' / Published October 29, 2009 05:55 pm - "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov.

Titles for the 2010 season at Riverside Theatre's Second Stage black box theatre have been announced.

A'Jacques Brel appeared like love and took over my heart. Using his charm, he left me breathless and, as a result, I wanted to express all these emotions through his music,A' explained Sonia Theodoridou earlier this week on the occasion of the presentation of her new CD A'Sonia Theodoridou Sings Jacques Brel,A' released by Etcetera Records.

Entitled The Dark Angel , it opens at the Apollo Theatre on December 9, 2009 and runs until January 16, 2010.

"This song would never have happened without Brel," declared Amanda McBroom, introducing her composition "The Rose," the encore at the end of a show otherwise devoted to songs by Jacques Brel at the Metropolitan Room on Monday evening.

Always stop at the top, the musos say, and the Arts Festival did just that with Micheline Van Hautem and guitarist Erwin van Ligten.

This show is a celebration of the songs of Jacques Brel . It is 80 years since his birth in Belgium; he moved to Paris in his mid-twenties to forge a career as a singer-songwriter, and was also known as an actor and director.

In any list of famous Belgians - " a category that wags of other nationalities delight in mocking - " Jacques Brel must be short odds for the top five.

The Rogers Park neighborhood has gradually evolved into a genuine "theater corridor," with the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, the side project and Raven Theatre now forming a little cultural hotbed in the area.

SEASON IN THE SUN: Micheline Van Hautem will perform two concerts in Nelson on October 24 and 25.

DOHA: The French Embassy will host a French musical on October 23 and 24 about the famous singer Jacques Brel at the Qatar National Theatre.

By Jim Gilchrist "THERE isn't an equivalent to chanson in the English-speaking songwriting world," laments Leon Rosselson.

Start: Oct 25, 2009 End: Oct 25, 2009 Time: 6:00pm Price: Tickets are $10 Contact: 822-2326 Location: 426 E. Tehachapi Blvd., Tehachapi, Ca 93561 Visit Paris without ever leaving Tehachapi when Delilah Shank sings the classic torch songs and romantic ballads of legendary French singer Edith Piaf.

Americans generally don't know a lot about the Belgian-born pop singer Jacques Brel.

Nick Currie, aka the artist and performer Momus, was struck by the music of Jacques Brel from an early age.