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  • 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...

  • Five first ladies of dance at the Kennedy Center

    This is an evening-length event featuring solo performances from contemporary dancers Germaine Acogny, Kennedy Center Honoree Carmen de Lavallade, Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller and Jawole...

  • Elaine Paige and Linda Lavin cast in Kennedy Center’s Follies

    The Kennedy Center just dropped an additional casting announcement for their upcoming spring revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Of course, the biggest news here is...

  • Modern Love

    Did you know William Shakespeare's Mercutio might be gay? ''Perhaps Mercutio is bisexual, who knows? He's a sexual provocateur, let's put it that way,'' says...

  • Hair at the Kennedy Center

    The Kennedy Center lets the sun shine in on Hair, the 2009 Tony winner for Best Musical Revival, as it kicks off its national tour....

  • Frock On

    ''It was getting a little tedious, frankly,'' says Bette Bourne. ''All these men kind of waving their dicks around, telling us what they'd read and...