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News Articles: Performing Arts

A view of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which the current board is calling the Trump Kennedy Center, in Washington, DC,  on Dec. 26, 2025.

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  • Performing Arts

Washington National Opera leaves Kennedy Center, joining slew of artist exits

The WNO is just the latest to say they will no longer perform at the Kennedy Center since Trump took over last year.

January 11, 2026
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman and
  • Ivy Buck
Celebrated banjo player Béla Fleck, performing at the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony in Los Angeles in Feb. 2025.

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  • Performing Arts

Béla Fleck cancels Kennedy Center appearance, says it's become 'charged and political'

The 18-time Grammy Award winner is the latest musician to cancel an show at the Kennedy Center. Béla Fleck says he cannot currently perform there because it "has become charged and political."

January 07, 2026
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The Wicked Witch 'Adelphaba' (played by Gigi Zahir) on stage at the Pleasance Theatre in North London

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  • Arts & Life

'It's behind you!' How Britain goes wild for pantomimes during the holidays

Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is expected to join in throughout, shouting as loudly as they can.

December 27, 2025
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By:
  • Robbie Griffiths
The Kennedy Center says it is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.

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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change

The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.

December 27, 2025
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By:
  • Kristin Wright
GPB  NPR

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  • Performing Arts

'The Nutcracker' helps keep the lights on for American ballet companies

About half of the revenue for American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker." Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum fairies.

December 22, 2025
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
President John F. Kennedy, left, looks at a model of what was later named the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC., in 1963.

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  • Arts & Life

It was called the Kennedy Center, but 3 different presidents shaped it

Washington, D.C.'s performing arts center was named for President Kennedy after his assassination. But his vision for the arts as a cornerstone of democracy was shared by Eisenhower and Johnson.

December 19, 2025
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he visits the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C, on March 17, 2025.

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  • Performing Arts

President Trump to add his own name to the Kennedy Center

The arts institution will be called the Trump-Kennedy Center. The president's press secretary said it comes after a unanimous vote by the center's board, which Trump took over earlier this year.

December 19, 2025
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Tom Felton, left, who played Harry Potter's nemesis Draco Malfoy in eight films, is now playing him live on stage.

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  • Performing Arts

'Harry Potter' fans are flying to Broadway to see the original Draco Malfoy

Almost eight years after Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened on Broadway, Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the films, is now playing him as an adult onstage.

December 17, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/29/1115745320/acclaimed-playwright-tom-stoppard-dies-at-88"target="_blank"   ><strong>Read Tom Stoppard's obituary</strong></a>

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  • Obituaries

Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

Tom Stoppard is remembered as a playwright whose wit and curiosity reshaped modern theater.

November 29, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Vitale
GPB  NPR

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  • Theater

In 1981, Stephen Sondheim's 'Merrily' was a flop -- now it's a hit

A filmed version of the live production of Merrily We Roll Along will open in theaters on Dec. 5. We listen back to a 2024 interview with revival director Maria Friedman and actor Jonathan Groff.

November 27, 2025
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By:
  • Terry Gross
Misty Copeland was the first Black female principal dancer in the history of American Ballet Theatre. She took a final bow at Lincoln Center on Oct. 22, 2025

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  • Performing Arts

'It's as if I've been reborn': Misty Copeland begins a next chapter in 'a new body'

Copeland says her final performance with American Ballet Theatre was a thank you to the communities that had supported her. "What I represented is something far bigger than me," she says.

November 05, 2025
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Misty Copeland, left, and Oprah Winfrey attend the American Ballet Theatre's Fall Gala honoring Misty Copeland at David Geffen Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, in New York.

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  • Performing Arts

Misty Copeland hangs up her pointe shoes after performing at retirement show

Misty Copeland took one last spin on her pointe shoes Wednesday, as she retired after a trailblazing career in which she became an ambassador for diversity in an overwhelmingly white art form.

October 23, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
<em>Back To The Future</em> and <em>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade </em>posters were illustrated by Drew Struzan.

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  • Movies

Drew Struzan, artist of iconic movie posters, dies at 78

The artist and illustrator created iconic posters for movie franchises like Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Back to the Future.

October 14, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Edwards
A curtain call during a performance of <em>Hamilton</em> on Broadway at Richard Rodgers Theatre on Sept. 9, 2025 in New York City. The union representing Broadway actors and stage managers says it is getting close to a strike.

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  • Performing Arts

Talks resume as Broadway actors consider a strike

Broadway's union for performers and stage managers says the sticking point is health care.

October 08, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of <em>Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! </em>in Ypsilanti, Mich.

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  • Performing Arts

Bread and Puppet Theater is still working to 'make the revolution irresistible'

The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing circus, politics and bread in a sharply polarized moment.

October 06, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
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