CMU School of Drama


Monday, April 21, 2025

To Kennedy Center or not to Kennedy Center? For DC audiences, that is now the question.

DC Theater Arts: Like many arts lovers in Washington, DC, I’ve been grappling with an existential question since February: Whether to attend the Kennedy Center or not. On February 12, just three weeks into his second term in office, Trump fired all 18 Democratic board appointees at the traditionally bipartisan institution and replaced them with his own political cronies, who immediately elected him chairman of the board. Because, as the new leader of the free world, a top item on his political agenda was deciding whether DC audiences will get to see Legally Blonde next year?

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