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

Richard Grenell, the center’s new president, told a conservative gathering that the “big change” at the center would be a ...

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

Shonda Rhimes resigned from the Kennedy Center Board on Wednesday.

Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees The Kennedy Center Honors will return in December with a class that includes Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, "Saturday Night Live ...

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 ...

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

Credit: Unsplash/ MIKE STOLL The Republican has admittedly never attended a performance at the site, eschewing several Kennedy Center Honors during his first term in defiance of White House tradition.

Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump sat out every Kennedy Center Honors during his first presidency, breaking from tradition ...

Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was its annual celebration of ...

Canada's Joni Mitchell, Lorne Michaels among those celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors Recipients don't have to be born in the U.S. or even citizens; U2 was honoured in 2022. Canadians honourees ...