The Kennedy Center can’t include new memorials or plaques — for donors or presidents — under U.S. law. Republicans would need to change that to rename it for the Trumps.

President John F. Kennedy, left, looks at a model of the Kennedy Center on October 8, 1963 in Washington, DC. - National Archives/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

The Kennedy Center, which hosts more than 2,200 performances and exhibitions each year, held a small number of shows involving drag last year, including a “ Dragtastic Dressup” for LGBTQ+ ...

Washington D.C.’s Landmark Theatre, and 2019 Expansion (1971 - 2025) Annually, the complex has hosted dozens of plays, operas, holiday events, and, most famously, the Kennedy Center Honors.

And one of the largest donors to the Kennedy Center was fired as chairman. Before he was ousted, Rubenstein stood as the Kennedy Center’s largest-ever donor, giving $111 million to the institution.

In 2023, the Kennedy Center had a $6 million surplus, even though it is not supposed to be a money-making enterprise. “We’re a nonprofit organization,” Rutter said.

Republicans proposed Tuesday to name the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Opera House after first lady Melania Trump, with the lawmaker who sponsored the measure saying he wanted to ...

On Wednesday, March 5, The New York Times reported that the Hamilton musical will skip the Kennedy Center next year—and it won’t return for the entirety of Donald Trump’s takeover of the arts center.

The Kennedy Center can’t include new memorials or plaques — for donors or presidents — under U.S. law. Republicans would need to change that to rename it for the Trumps.