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Kennedy Center unveils 2025–2026 theater season amid Trump takeover, industry shifts

WASHINGTON — The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has unveiled its 2025–2026 theater season, promising a lineup of Broadway blockbusters, magical spectacles and family-friendly favorites. But this year’s announcement arrives under a cloud of political controversy.

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Kennedy Center To Include Non-Equity Theater Productions Following Donald Trump Complaints

Two non-Equity theatrical tours - Mrs. Doubtfire and Chicago - are on the 2026 programming schedule of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

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'Who’s going to tell' him? Trump mocked as Kennedy Center lineup featuring notorious drag productions

President Donald Trump fired the board of trustees at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and named himself chair. Then he installed former acting director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell to serve as the center's executive director.

Richard Grenell, Live Nation and Kennedy Center

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Live Nation Names Trump’s Kennedy Center Head Richard Grenell to Its Board

Live Nation on Tuesday elected Richard Grenell, President Trump’s recently-named head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to its board of directors.

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Kennedy Center head Richard Grenell joins Live Nation Board of Directors

Concert giant and Ticketmaster owner Live Nation Entertainment has appointed Richard Grenell to its Board of Directors. Grenell was recently appointed by Donald Trump as President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,

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Former Kennedy Center heads deny Richard Grenell’s accusation of ‘fraud’

After Grenell and President Trump attacked the Kennedy Center’s former leadership at the White House, former center president Deborah Rutter called the claims false.

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Trump vows to turn the Kennedy Center around as he seeks to remake arts and culture in America

President Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center’s leadership, reinforcing how much time he’s devoting to remaking one of the ...

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Kennedy Center employees announce plans to unionize

Staffers asked the National Labor Relations Board to oversee a union vote. They criticized leaders at the arts center for ...

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Kennedy Center ex-president decries ‘false allegations’ about her tenure

The offstage drama at the embattled John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts just took another turn. Deborah Rutter, whose tenure as president of the premier Washington, D.C. arts organization ...

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Employees at DC's Kennedy Center seek to unionize amid job security concerns

In a statement posted Thursday to Instagram, the newly formed Kennedy Center United Arts Workers (KCUAW) announced its intent ...

Kennedy Center employees make an effort to unionize in response to Trump takeover

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts employees announced Thursday their plan to unionize following President Donald ...

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