While President Donald Trump ‘s controversial takeover of the Kennedy Center grabbed headlines in Washington, his administration has taken an ax to arts funding far beyond the capital city. Trump’s ...

Ticket sales are down amid Trump’s overhaul of national arts center, which includes ‘common sense’ programming, a prayer wall ...

Sales for ticket packages are down about $1.6 million year over year, a window into the arts center’s challenges following ...

The Washington National Opera’s stirring revival of George Gershwin's classic highlights the power of community and voice.

After Trump’s takeover, the Kennedy Center’s next season has fewer performances and two non-union tours -- and producers are divided about whether it will continue to be such a coveted venue.

seating for the performance and admission to the VIP reception for two. The White House referred ABC News to the Kennedy Center for comment. A Kennedy Center spokesperson declined to comment.

A House committee ... at the Kennedy Center in June. He is a fan of Broadway musicals of the 1980s, including “Les Mis,” “Cats” and “Phantom of the Opera.” An invitation offered ...

On Friday evening at the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera ... But beyond any expectations I brought to the opera house, it succeeds as a portrait of the perils of genius — what ...

The Heritage Foundation, for instance, has long recommended that the public-private opera house be cut off. According to that Trump-friendly think tank, privatizing the Kennedy Center entirely ...

The opera’s composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce stood by their decision to pull it from the Kennedy Center ... if it doesn’t sell enough tickets, then we’d better have ...

But one opera was withdrawn from the lineup by the artists who created it, who objected to the president’s takeover. By Javier C. Hernández The Kennedy Center ... and a White House tour.

The average red-hat-wearing tourist who might buy tickets for “Cats” has ... stood in the Kennedy Center’s Opera House presidential box, arms outstretched as if there were hundreds of ...