The Kennedy Center Honors, however, are a different matter altogether—their decline is not a local Beltway matter but a ...

I don’t believe that arts should be a part of a political conversation,” the former 'Reading Rainbow' host told The Hollywood ...

Mavis Staples opened a three-night stint at SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium on Valentine's Day with a set of classic soul ...

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

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

This public-private performing arts center relies on some $85 million in donations every year. Will its sudden politicization ...

Why must every president overplay his hand?” Christopher J. Scalia wrote on X the other day. Scalia, the son of the famed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and hardly a raging progressive, was ...

WASHINGTON − The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has been America's premiere stage for decades. But more recently, the cultural center has been in the headlines not for art but ...

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 ...

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 ...