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

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center’s leadership at the White House on Monday night, reinforcing how much attention he’s devoting to remaking a premier ...

Trump held the meeting in the State Dining Room at the White House on the same day the Kennedy Center announced its theater season for 2025-2026. The performing arts center, which has faced ...

Trump hosted the Kennedy Center Board at the White House on Monday evening. The dinner, held in the State Dining Room, came months after Trump dismissed the previous board members and announced he ...

The Kennedy Center is fighting back against a group of actors who threaten to close the curtain on Donald Trump. On Wednesday, CNN reported that 10 out of the 12 actors in a “Les Misérables ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fellow Travelers will be replaced on the Kennedy Center line-up with a new production of Robert Ward’s opera The Crucible. The withdrawal is the latest high-profile voluntary protest cancelation ...

But one opera was withdrawn from the lineup by the artists who created it, who objected to the president’s takeover.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.

Tavish Forsyth, who served as program director at the Kennedy Center’s Opera Institute, gave the world both an eyeful and an earful with a cringe-inducing, 35-minute clip posted to his lightly ...