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This is a form of saying, ‘We are here, we exist and you can’t ignore us.’ This is a protest, and a political act.” ...
A group of five Democratic senators reportedly protested President Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the Kennedy Center by hosting a gay pride concert. The performance, dubbed “Love is ...
Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center president fumed at the brains behind Hamilton over an event staged Monday at the iconic arts ...
Five Democratic senators have rented a small theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and invited the producer of “Hamilton” to stage a gay pride concert there.
Several actors in the touring musical boycotted their own show on Wednesday, June 11, citing President Trump's hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center earlier this year ...
The MAGAfied Kennedy Center hosted a free animated film about Jesus, but only a little more than half of the seats were ...
Donald Trump’s-revamped Kennedy Center announced its upcoming season Monday — and the stage will be packed with drag queens.The president overthrew the prestigious performing arts center's ...
The center’s new president said prosecutors should look at its “criminal” debt and deferred maintenance, as the center announced dance and theater offerings that include some with nonunion ...
No one really knows how a 23-year-old Wharton graduate, flush with starter funds from his real estate developer-king father, wound up on Broadway. But there Donald Trump was, in the fall of 1969 ...
Conan O'Brien is the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, following in the recent footsteps of Kevin Hart, Adam Sandler, and ...
For years, the Kennedy Center has promoted LGBTQ-related material, causes, and events. In fact, this summer, it was slated to host a week chock-full of Pride-themed events for the biennial World ...
On February 12, 2025, I received a call from a staff member of the Kennedy Center, where I had been a social-practice resident since October 1, 2024, and had been producing a cabaret-style show ...