News & Politics Judge Tosses Kennedy Center’s Lawsuit Against Musician Who Canceled Concert The judge also ordered the center's Trump-installed management to pay Chuck Redd's court costs under DC's anti-SLAPP law. Kennedy CenterJune 5, 2026
News & Politics Washington National Opera’s Divorce From the Kennedy Center Is About to Get Complicated Who gets the $30 million endowment? What's going on with the shared orchestra? “We have a very large legal team," says the opera's artistic director. Kennedy Center, Washington National OperaJanuary 21, 2026
News & Politics Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician. Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, Ric Grenell, Yasmin WilliamsSeptember 23, 2025
News & Politics The “MAGA Former Dancer” Named to a Top Job at the Kennedy Center Inherits a Troubled Program Stephen Nakagawa got his job after he complained about “radical leftist ideologies in ballet." He's been greeted by depleted staff and slow ticket sales for dance performances. Kennedy Center, Ric Grenell, Stephen Nakagawa, Washington BalletSeptember 3, 2025
News & Politics At Arena Stage Gala, Rutter Dances and Norton Falters Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton gave a garbled address, while fellow honoree Deborah Rutter referred obliquely to her defenestration from the Kennedy Center. Arena Stage, deborah rutter, Eleanor Holmes Norton, TheaterMay 2, 2025
News & Politics Diane von Furstenberg and Hillary Clinton Honored Ruth Bader Ginsburg in DC February 20, 2020
News & Politics | Things to Do Improv, Inclusivity, and Vaginas: What You Need to Know About “The Feminine Experience” The new DC show pays homage to "The Vagina Monologues." Improv, Washington Improv TheaterFebruary 25, 2019
News & Politics Rebecca Ritzel’s Student Loan Provider Didn’t Seem to Care That She Had Cancer. So She Took Action. Cancer, Capitol Hill, Congress, Donald TrumpFebruary 19, 2019
News & Politics Rudy Giuliani Takes in “Camelot” in DC, Gets a Shoulder Rub During “Lusty Month of May” Also, his son and daughter-in-law made out vigorously during “What Do the Simple Folk Do?” Andrew Giuliani, Jennifer LeBlanc, Rudy Giuliani, Shakespeare Theatre CompanyJune 4, 2018
Things to Do Laura Benanti Was Born to Do a Perfect Melania Trump Impression The lyric soprano, who's delighted Stephen Colbert audiences, plays Wolf Trap Saturday. Laura Benanti, Melania Trump, Stephen Colbert, Wolf TrapOctober 28, 2016
