(THE CONVERSATION) When President Donald Trump announced that he was assuming control of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he described the move as a triumph over “wokey” programming. He ...

The second term of President Trump has come with a few new twists, one of them being his hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center. Maybe he forgot about it the first time around, but in 2025 the ...

A Kennedy Center worker was dismissed after posting a nude protest video online, criticizing President Trump's leadership. Tavish Forsyth, the Opera Institute's program director, condemned Trump's ...

Ahead of the organization’s big Mark Twain Prize ceremony honoring Conan O’Brien, A-listers and working artists are struggling to make the right call. Photo: Mat Hayward/WireImage On the same ...

An employee at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. was fired on Thursday after he published a 35-minute nude protest video against President Donald Trump. “Trump has taken over the Kennedy ...

Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The crowd was telling the Second Couple: You don't ...

Debra Saunders is Washington columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal distributed by Creators.com. WASHINGTON—Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife ...

The picture originated as an artist's illustration accompanying an opinion article published by The Daily Beast. A rumor that users circulated online in March 2025 claimed a picture showed U.S ...

Of the 2,000 or so performances that the Kennedy Center hosts for its approximately 2 million guests each year, two best sum up its ambitions as a temple of creative achievement: the Kennedy ...

As part of his campaign to rid the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from the influence or “radical left lunatics,” Donald Trump Monday attended his first meeting as the center ...

President Donald Trump attends a board meeting at the Kennedy Centers in D.C. on Monday. (AP) It was the early ’60s, Chubby Checker was doing the twist and the first records by a British boy ...