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Arena Stage Gala Dazzles with Tony Award Winner Laura Benanti
June 10, 2025
•The 2025 Arena Stage Annual Gala featured a cocktail reception, a seated dinner, award presentations, and a performance by Tony Award winner Laura Benanti. Benanti took Broadway by storm at the age of […]
Editorial: Curiouser and Curiouser
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“Are their heads off?” shouted the Queen. “Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!” the soldiers shouted in reply. “That’s right!” shouted the Queen. Here in Don-derland, the […]
Downtowner D.C.
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Poker, Blackjack, Bingo Licenses in D.C.’s Future? In her budget for fiscal 2026, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has proposed allowing commercial poker, blackjack and bingo in District hotels and restaurants […]
Kennedy Center’s Rutter to Step Down
January 27, 2025
•Kennedy Center’s president since 2014, Deborah Rutter, will step down from her role at the end of the year amidst uncertainty in a new (returning?) administration. Rutter’s contract is up […]
Women Leaders: Deborah Rutter, President, Kennedy Center
April 14, 2022
•Our spring arts preview featured 20 women cultural leaders in Washington, D.C. We wanted to amplify their voices in our online newsletters, spotlighting each of them individually. Our Thursday April […]
Spring Arts Preview: D.C.’s Women Cultural Leaders Speak Out
March 7, 2022
•In honor of Women’s History Month and our special arts preview issue, we asked area arts leaders what it’s like working at the famed museums and theaters D.C. has to […]
The Kennedy Center: A Fresh Look for Its 50th Anniversary
September 16, 2021
•Celebrating its 50th anniversary this September, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts deserves a fresh look. As the nation’s preeminent “national cultural center,” it has served for […]
Big Bird, But Not Spinney, at Kennedy Center Honors
December 9, 2019
•Millions of fans had earlier in the day learned of the death of Caroll Spinney, the gentle puppeteer of two world-famous Muppets: Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
Fall Arts Preview: The Reach – The Kennedy Center’s Expansion
September 11, 2019
•When Deborah Rutter took up the reins as the new president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, things sounded a little chaotic in the middle of […]
Kennedy Center Opens the Reach With Parade, Festival (photos)
September 9, 2019
•Overlooking the Potomac River, the new campus is the setting for three matching white concrete-and-glass buildings with more than 130,000 square feet of space for artists and performances.