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As 2025 gets started, planning for the year is in full swing. Here is a list of 2025 holidays, special events, big games, cultural milestones and other key dates to mark on your calendar ...
The Kennedy Center as seen from the air on January 8, 2006 (before construction of the REACH expansion). A portion of the Watergate complex can be seen at the left. The idea for a national cultural center dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression. [4]
The Kennedy Center's board now entirely consists of Trump appointees. ... 2025 at 1:16 PM ... Rae thanked her fans for selling out her March 16 one-night-only event “An Evening With Issa Rae ...
The center was officially renamed in 1963, following Kennedy's assassination. The center opened with a gala on September 8, 1971. Contributing: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy and Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY
The idea for the Kennedy Center Honors began in 1977, after that year's 10th-anniversary White House reception and Kennedy Center program for the American Film Institute (AFI). Roger L. Stevens , the founding chairman of the Kennedy Center, asked George Stevens Jr. (no relation), the founding director of the AFI, to hold an event for the center.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Washington, D.C. ... Date Event City Country Performed song(s) ... This page was last edited on 9 March 2025, ...
By 1995, The (Washington) Post reported, seats at the Kennedy Center were "almost as scarce" as football tickets, and "usually cost more." [ 13 ] This expansion took place during the period of Feinstein's tenure when he greatly increased the number of performances per season, which had a phenomenal effect on ticket sales (the audience ...
President Donald Trump is the new chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and some stars are heading for the exit.. Shonda Rhimes, the creator of hit shows like "Grey's ...