She is also a New York Times bestselling author with her first book, Rita Moreno: A Memoir, published by Celebra Books. Recipient of the Peabody Career Achievement Award and the Kennedy Center Honor .

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

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 ...

Shonda Rhimes resigned from the Kennedy Center Board on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump wants to lavish his personal friends with Kennedy Center Honors, after parachuting himself into the ...

The president is now the arts center’s chairman. What will this mean for its future?

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 ...