Joffrey Ballet Welcomes Two New Members To Its Board Of Directors, Appoints Two New Life Directors
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 17, 2023
Anne L. Kaplan, Joffrey Board Chair, and Greg Cameron, President and CEO of The Joffrey Ballet, are pleased to announce the appointment of Nichelle Hughley Mayberry and Sarah Wills to the Joffrey Board of Directors, effective immediately, for the 2022–2025 term; and the appointment of Zachary Lazar and Maureen Dwyer Smith as Joffrey Life Directors, effective immediately.
TOP DRAWER; STORIES FROM PARK AVENUE TO HAVANA Begins 2/5 at Theatre 72
by Kelsey Denette - Jan 24, 2013
TOP DRAWER recounts writer & performer Adelaide Mestre's autobiographical journey from the gilded penthouses of Manhattan's Upper East Side to the old city streets of Havana, Cuba. On a mission to re-discover her colorful family's heritage, one that includes Marshall Field (founder of Marshall Field & Company Department Stores), Marshall Field III (founder of The Chicago Sun Times), Cornelius Bliss (founder of the Metropolitan Opera) and Abel Mestre (CMQ network, Cuba), Mestre establishes her personal independence and takes the audience from dysfunction to redemption. With a gay, Cuban, concert-pianist father and a mother who was an exacting, strong-willed socialite and professional opera-singer, Mestre's extraordinary life makes for a riveting theatrical experience.