Kennedy Center artists are deciding to cancel or perform. Ticket sales dropped roughly 50 percent after Trump announced he ...

President Donald Trump dismissed half the appointed trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ board on Feb. 12, 2025. The remaining board members, most of whom he had recently ...

The Kennedy Center downplays CPAC comments from longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon that a choir composed of Jan. 6 rioters will perform at the Kennedy Center.

Paolo Zampolli, a modeling agency honcho turned real estate player, has spent years pushing for Trumpian upgrades to DC's ...

Proponents of President Donald Trump's changes to the arts institution argued that it was already in financial turmoil and fundraising would not be a problem for the president.

Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter, brought on by Rubenstein in 2014, resigned soon after the board shake-up. Trump ...

One thing we already know about this young administration is that they have a much clearer sense of what they are against — much of it symbolized by the Kennedy Center — than what they are ...

Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter was fired as a part of Trump's overhaul of the national cultural institution. Soon after, several high-profile figures resigned from their roles within the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Deborah Rutter, former head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in her ...

(Day-to-day administration for the Center is handled by the group’s President, currently Deborah F. Rutter, who’s so far managed to avoid catching any strays in this latest tantrum.) ...

Friday’s news comes more than a week after the Kennedy Center’s president, Deborah Rutter, announced plans to step down at the end of the year following more than a decade at the helm.

Last week, the Kennedy Center’s president, Deborah Rutter, announced plans to step down at the end of the year. The board had started a search for her replacement and retained a headhunter.