FAME to Play at Kursaal Oostende by BWW News Desk
- June 05, 2019 The hit sensation, Fame the Musical is coming to Belgium Aug. 5-10 at the Kursaal Oostende.
BWW Review: CATS at Palais 12 by Alexander Diaconu
- March 21, 2019 For the first time in Belgium, the original version of CATS is as dynamic, rich, colourful and intense as it was in 1981 when it opened at The New London Theatre.
La Monnaie Presents Its 2019/20 Season by BWW News Desk
- March 19, 2019 This first season of Peter de Caluwe's third mandate in Brussels is, in a certain sense, also a blueprint for the coming years, during which the usual seasonal themes will step aside for a new 'seasonal architecture', allowing an even stronger focus on creation and experimentation. In total, the audience of La Monnaie can look forward to a record number of eleven operas in 2019-20..
FRANKENSTEIN Comes to La Monnaie by BWW News Desk
- February 08, 2019 The disappointment was palpable when midway through the 2015-16 season it became clear that the world premiere of Frankenstein would not go ahead as planned because the set and the special effects were too exacting technically for the temporary infrastructure at Tour & Taxis. Partly because of the many film adaptations, Mary Shelley's modern myth about an idealistic, but arrogant scientist and his 'Creature' still clearly fires the collective imagination, and the expectations of Mark Grey's opera of the same name were running high. However, three seasons later La Monnaie is now more than ready to bring this production to life. All eyes are on the Polish-Lebanese conductor Bassem Akiki and the Spanish director lex Oll .
Museum Of Fine Arts Brings Van Eyck To Ghent by BWW News Desk
- February 05, 2019 Worldwide, only approximately twenty works by Van Eyck have been preserved. Quite exceptionally, at least half of these will travel to Ghent in 2020 for the exhibition 'Van Eyck. An optical revolution' at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK). In what promises to be an unmissable, tour de force of an exhibition, the world of Van Eyck and his revolutionary gaze will be brought to life like never before. The museum aims to attract 250.000 visitors to the event, and is today giving a first peek into some of the coming highlights.
BWW Review: FUNERAILLES D'HIVER at Rideau De Bruxelles by Alexander Diaconu
- January 12, 2019 "Funerailles d'Hiver" is a voyage into another world. A world where one can accept the existence of a soul gathering entity, a world in which a strong wind can take you from a beach to the highest tops of the Himalayas, a world in which people can: « defy space and time, remaining totally believable. »
BWW Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Karreveld Castle by Patrick Honoré
- January 05, 2019 After Sunset Boulevard last summer and before My Fair Lady next season, both at Karreveld Castle, Brussels is staying alive through the winter with the sound of musicals, this time with a much meatier choice by Tobiarts Productions, the Pulitzer Prize and triple Tony Awards winner Next to Normal.
KVS Holds Afropean Casting Call by BWW News Desk
- December 26, 2018 KVS is looking for young acting talent for Afropean // Human Being, a new creation with try outs in June 2019, premiering in February 2020.