Earlier this year when I was working on Plays from the Provincetown Players at the newly renovated Provincetown Playhouse, I was contacted by the NYU Steinhardt press rep to do a live interview on television about the re-opening of the theatre.  The interview was scheduled for early March during the run of the show, but then got bumped because of budget issues in Albany.  The producer still wanted to do the interview, and she said she would be in touch around March 29.  I thought it was dead in the water, but then she contacted me on Monday and said there was a slot for Tuesday.   I went in for an interview during the 7:00-8:00pm news broadcast with Chuck Scarborough on NBC4.  The show appears nightly on the NBC’s NY Nonstop cable channel, as well as several other cable providers.

Every year on March 25, New York City firefighters and labor organizers come together at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street to commemorate the deaths of 146 garment workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire that occurred in 1911.  The fire killed many young immigrant workers, mostly women, who were trapped on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of the building.  Many of these young workers jumped to their deaths, because their escape was hampered by locked doors, not enough stairwells for egress, and only one elevator. 

Once again the ladies of the Obama administration flex their power and help influence foreign policy and a changing global landscape.

The New York Times reports today that President Obama changed his position on intervention in Libya as a result of three powerful women in top positions in his administration. 

CNN released a poll today indicating that two thirds of those polled have a positive opinion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. You can read about it here: http://bit.ly/fNy4Ds

In his March 10 article entitled “A Broadway Makeover for ‘Priscilla’ Queens,” New York Times writer Patrick Healy reports on the new musical, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and its journey to the Broadway stage.  You can read his article here: http://nyti.ms/fOqwOP.  And if you didn’t know, this musical is based on the 1994 movie, featuring two drag queens and a transsexual.