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

Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter, brought on by Rubenstein in 2014, was fired soon after the board shakeup. Trump ...

Trump is now the Kennedy Center's board chairman, giving him control over a beloved arts institution that regularly interacts with Hollywood ...

Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees The Kennedy Center Honors ... music legend Garth Brooks, dancer and actress Debbie Allen,… Others chosen to receive the award for ...

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 ...

President Trump is changing the composition of the Kennedy Center's board — and wants to change the types of performances the ...

Trump has a stormy history with the Kennedy Center Honors, the institution’s most important fund-raiser of the year, which is televised and includes a White House reception ahead of the awards.

And the lineup — theater, music, singing ... and first lady Melania Trump would not attend the Kennedy Center Honors in 2017, after some award recipients that year threatened a boycott.

A half-century later, Donald Trump gave a similar wide berth to the Kennedy Center during his first term. He came about that posture through the Center’s annual Kennedy Center Honors ...

By Paul Grein UPDATE (Feb. 12): Deborah F. Rutter, the third president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, exited that position today, months ahead of schedule, after she was ...