Tag Archives: James Strecker

TWO NEW POEMS ON THE KILLING OF REGAN RUSSELL – JUNE 19, 2021

Posted on June 20, 2021 by strecker

INTRODUCTION:   Last June 2020, when animal activist –  and friend for forty years – Regan Russell was killed or murdered at Fearman’s Slaughterhouse in Burlington, I wrote a cycle of five poems which was included in this blog later last … Continue reading →

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FIVE POEMS ON THE DEATH OF REGAN RUSSELL James Strecker © 2020, James Strecker

Posted on September 15, 2020 by strecker

I read the last of these now revised poems at the presentation of the Dr. Jean Rumney Award posthumously to Regan Russell on September 14, 2020 at the Hamilton/Burlington SPCA   REGAN BRINGS WATER TO THE PIGS Regan brings water … Continue reading →

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AUTHOR & PETA FOUNDER INGRID NEWKIRK: A REVIEWER’S INTERVIEW WITH PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

Posted on August 8, 2016 by strecker

INTRODUCTION: My purpose in these interviews for my blog James Strecker Reviews the Arts is to give readers a deeper understanding of creative people  and their work, however the latter perceive it. JAMES STRECKER: Please tell us about something you … Continue reading →

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DIANE ESTHER ON LIFE AFTER INCEST: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WRITER, CONSULTANT, ACTIVIST, LECTURER AND POET WHOSE BOOK “OUT OF INCEST” IS NOW IN ITS 10TH PRINTING……..PARTS I & II

Posted on March 6, 2016 by strecker

James Strecker: We have so much to talk about regarding a very difficult subject which you know first-hand –incest. Okay, then, up to knowing you had to write a book, what happened in your life? Diane Esther: I didn’t meet … Continue reading →

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THE INTERVIEWER GETS INTERVIEWED: JAMES STRECKER, THE PROPRIETOR OF THIS BLOG, JAMES STRECKER REVIEWS THE ARTS, IS INTERVIEWED BY AUTHOR, EDITOR, CONSULTANT, AND DEPTH PSYCHOLOGIST VALERIE HARMS

Posted on December 11, 2015 by strecker

Valerie Harms: James Strecker has reviewed and posted articles on the arts in this column since 2010. Having been a recent subject, I thought it would be of interest to switch sides and ask him questions. After all, he has … Continue reading →

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ONE OF A KIND EN DEUX LANGUES: AN INTERVIEW WITH SINGER, SONGWRITER, BROADCASTER, PLAYWRIGHT MARIE-LYNN HAMMOND

Posted on September 5, 2014 by strecker

Not long ago, singer Marie-Lynn Hammond released not one but two CDs -Creatures, reviewed previously in this blog with highest praise, and Hoofbeats- both after a devastating accident. Upcoming soon are several gigs in Southern Ontario and Quebec. This interview … Continue reading →

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INTERVIEW WITH LOUISE PITRE OF SONDHEIM’S “COMPANY” AT TORONTO’S BERKELEY STREET THEATRE FROM JUNE 21

Posted on June 7, 2014 by strecker

Actor-singer Louise Pitre has understandably been called Canada’s first lady of musical theatre. She has garnered a variety of accolades, in her ongoing and distinguished career, which include a Theatre World award for Mama Mia! on Broadway, a Tony nomination … Continue reading →

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RICHARD PRYOR: OMIT THE LOGIC: An Interview with the film’s executive producer -and the comedian’s widow- Jennifer Lee Pryor

Posted on May 27, 2014 by strecker

The film Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic serves as a compassionate but unflinching exploration of comedian-actor Richard Pryor’s inner and outer lives -and how one affected the other. It’s a rich experience of a film, in part because of many … Continue reading →

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MEMORIES OF PETE SEEGER (Published February 13, 2014 in the Hamilton Spectator)

Posted on February 17, 2014 by strecker

MEMORIES OF PETE SEEGER The last three postcards from Pete Seeger were signed ‘Old Pete’, though the handwriting was quite graceful and still verging on miniscule as in his first letter in 1961. After one of his concerts, back then, … Continue reading →

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OPERA ATELIER: LA CLEMENZA DI TITO

Posted on April 27, 2011 by strecker

In Opera Atelier’s production of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, now at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto, Measha Brueggergosman’s Vitellia is an immediate thrilling creation. She is dynamic, eruptive, self-indulgent, confrontational, full of demons urging her on, and quite at … Continue reading →

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