(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 ...

One said, “Reinstate Queer Programming,” the other read, “Creativity at the Kennedy Center Must Not Be Suppressed,” and both were met with enthusiastic applause. Brown and Coleman closed ...

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The crowd was telling the Second Couple: You don't belong on our turf. Ah, but there's a new sheriff at the opera. President Donald Trump is now chairman of ...

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The institution, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, has long organized its annual gathering of celebrated artists, known as the Kennedy ...

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 ...

By Javier C. Hernández The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington has gone through big changes since President Trump’s recent takeover of the institution. But there will ...