What will a thin-skinned showman do with an institution central to Washington’s cultural life? One expectation is more ...

but what about the Kennedy Center Honors? Yes, President Donald Trump has made a compelling case for the paucity of good, wholesome, or even mildly edifying programming at the performing-arts ...

The president solidified his grip on the performing arts complex as the center’s longtime president, Deborah F. Rutter, was ...

Shonda Rhimes resigned from the Kennedy Center Board on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump proceeded with an overhaul of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, ...

Shonda Rhimes has resigned from the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center after Donald Trump appointed himself chairman.

He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, in which a handful of artists or groups are honored for contributions to American culture. The President and First ...

He and First Lady Melania Trump broke precedent set by his predecessors and skipped the Kennedy Center Honors during his first three years in office (the 2020 ceremony was postponed due to the ...

He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors, in which a handful of artists or groups are honored for contributions to American culture. The President and First ...

when he announced that he and first lady Melania Trump would not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017, after some award recipients that year threatened a boycott. The White House considers ...

as he eschewed an unspoken tradition for presidents to attend the Kennedy Center Honors — an esteemed, bipartisan award ceremony — and tried to withdraw government financial support for other ...