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  • The Kennedy Center ushers in spring with a gala

    Smokey Robinson hosts the Kennedy Center’s annual Spring Gala that this year also honors Michael Kaiser’s 10 years at the helm. The gala features such...

  • Jane Franklin Dance takes the KC’s Millennium Stage

    In “Take a Deep Breath,” Jane Franklin Dance company performs pieces including “Branch,” “Same Place at the Same Time” and “Leroy,” with musical accompaniment. Wednesday,...

  • Pianist Radu Lupu with the NSO

    Gianandrea Noseda makes his NSO debut conducting renowned pianist Radu Lupu in a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program is...

  • Disney in Concert at the NSO

    Michael Krajewski conducts the NSO Pops in Disney in Concert, an evening of musical selections from Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins,...

  • Alvin Ailey at the Kennedy Center

    The popular Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre returns to perform several mixed repertory programs, including Ailey’s signature piece Revelations, celebrating its 50th anniversary next season....

  • Sergey Khachatryan with the NSO

    Kirill Karabits conducts the NSO and violinist Sergey Khachatryan in a performance including Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2, plus Silvestrov’s Elegy for Strings and Sibelius’s...

  • The Kennedy Center’s Enchanted Evening

    The Lincoln Center Theater touring production of Rodger & Hammerstein’s South Pacific — now doing shore leave at the Kennedy Center — has waded waist...

  • New Year’s Eve at the Kennedy Center

    Usher in the New Year with a dazzling concert at The Kennedy Center. Now in its 16th year, the concert features members of the National...

  • All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam

    Now in its 12th year, Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage presents the All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam, a free concert with host and vibraphonist Chuck Redd,...

  • NSO Pops: Happy Holidays

    Marvin Hamlisch conducts the NSO Pops along with special guests, including sopranos Christiane Noll and Mikaela Schneider, cellist Kristina Winiawski, flutist Niles Watson and the...

  • Pianist Louis Lortie with the NSO

    Emmanuel Krivine conducts pianist Louis Lortie playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Also on the program is Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, Liszt’s Les Préludes and...

  • Soul Stirring

    Darius Nichols as Hud, photographed by Todd Franson in the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 Darius Nichols almost passed on auditioning for...

  • Gil Shaham this afternoon at the Kennedy Center

    Xian Zhang conducts the NSO and violinist Gil Shaham, whom the New York Times calls “a highly physical player,” in a program that includes Prokofiev’s...

  • Gil Shaham with the NSO

    Xian Zhang conducts the NSO and violinist Gil Shaham, whom the New York Times calls “a highly physical player,” in a program that includes Prokofiev’s...

  • Shear Brilliance

    kennedy-center.org Of the many egregious acts perpetrated on the American public by the advertising and marketing industry the worst may be this: ''Let the Sun...