As Eliot House prepares for extensive renovations, students expressed concern over the plans to remove a historic piano, ...

Here is a brief history of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

For decades, the Kennedy Center has come to symbolize freedom of expression, representation and creativity in the performing ...

Kennedy had been assassinated the year before. Construction began in 1965 and the center formally opened six years later, with a premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass.

The 1971 opening gala of the Kennedy Center was punctuated with a production of “Mass” by famed conductor Leonard Bernstein, featuring several choruses, Alvin Ailey’s dance company ...

More than any president in memory, Donald Trump is attuned to aesthetics. This should scarcely come as a surprise, given that Trump is our first builder-turned-president. In his previous vocation as a ...

WASHINGTON - Heather Dune Macadam still remembers one thought that bubbled inside her as she stepped onto the stage decades ago at the Kennedy Center for a dance competition: "Wow, I made it." Then, ...

Based on a real-life meeting between two musical greats, the Jewish maestro confronts his adversary, conductor and former ...

These colossal conductors are played by two of Germany's leading actresses: the American-born Helen Schneider as Leonard Bernstein, and Lucca Züchner as Herbert von Karajan. A Nazi Party member ...