Friday, May 23, 2025
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Gershwin’s “Great American Opera” marries jazz, blues, and gospel.
It’s “summertime, and the livin’ is easy” …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:18PMGet the inside scoop on Washington National Opera’s Porgy and Bess with director Francesca Zambello, who returns to this iconic work 20 years after first staging it at WNO.
🎭 Porgy an…
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The Kennedy Center is proud to be a managing partner of the the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. We are proud to present The Duke Ell…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:54PMEast Tennessee’s own Bill and the Belles perform their bittersweet original “Happy Again (I'll Never Be)” live on the Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center.
Featured on their deadpan…
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Go behind the scenes for a quick Q&A with internationally acclaimed soprano Alyson Cambridge, who returns to Washington National Opera’s Porgy and Bess—this time in the title role of Bes…
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It’s “summertime, and the livin’ is easy” in Catfish Row, a working-class fishing town in South Carolina. When a murder shakes the community and tempts Bess to return to her drug-fil…
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It’s “summertime, and the livin’ is easy” in Catfish Row, a working-class fishing town in South Carolina. When a mu…
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The Kennedy Center’s 2025–2026 Performances for Young Audiences season invites kids—and kids at heart—on unforgettable journeys through theater, music, and dance.
Fro…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMEnter the fray with “Des Helden Walstatt” (The Hero’s Field of Battle) from Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, performed live by the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Nose…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PM🎭 Introducing the Kennedy Center’s 2025–2026 Theater Season!
Get ready for a spectacular lineup that blends beloved classics with bold new productions. From the laugh-out-loud hijinks…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMThe winner of four 2024 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, is The Outsiders.
Adapted from S. E. Hinton’s seminal novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic film, this thrilling new mus…
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The Kennedy Center’s 2025–2026 Dance season features a bold and diverse lineup that spans timeless classics and fresh, groundbreaking work from across the glo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMCelebrate the season with Champions Of Magic and their all-new Holiday Spectacular featuring dazzling illusions, breathtaking, grand-scale magic, and festive surprises for the whole family. …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMGet ready for the festive season with Irish PBS favorites, the Shamrock Tenors, and their all-new show Christmas in Belfast. Described as “one of Northern Ireland’s greatest ever exports…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMEveryone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to the Kennedy Center in this internationally acclaimed hit musical critics call “wonderful, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Manc…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMChicago is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, with one showstopping song after another and the most…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMDirect from Broadway, the New York Times Critic’s Pick is touring the country! The musical that “sets musical theater back a thousand years” is returning to the Kennedy Center.
Everyt…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMMoulin Rouge! The Musical, the show that delighted and amazed Kennedy Center audiences, is back. Enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur, and glory! …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PMGreat Scott! Back to the Future, the acclaimed Broadway musical based on the classic movie of the same name, comes speeding back to the Kennedy Center.
When Marty McFly finds himself transp…
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In loving memory of Charles Strouse (1928–2025), we honor the extraordinary legacy of the Tony Award®–winning composer whose music shaped generations. Best known for his iconic scores f…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:12PMWatch the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor celebrating Conan O'Brien premiering on NETFLIX, Sunday, May 4, 2025.
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Experience a powerful, spirit-filled performance by Sweet Heaven Kings, Anacostia’s own gospel brass ensemble, as they deliver a moving rendition of Travis Greene’s “You Waited” live…
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Join in an evening of performances by graduating seniors of the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship program as they take the s…
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Qi Yu is a Guzheng (Chinese zither) player based in the DMV area. Born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China, she began playing the Guzhe…
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This concert takes the audience on an emotional ride through love, ambition, heartbreak, and resilience. Each song represents a differe…
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In the final movement of his Ninth Symphony, Ludwig van Beethoven gives musical expression to a vision of joyful brotherhood under God. …
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:32PMWatch the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor celebrating Conan O'Brien premiering on NETFLIX, Sunday, May 4, 2025.
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SOURCE: YouTube at 05:32PMThe second movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony bursts forth with rhythmic vitality and driving energy. Performed by the National Symphony Orchestra with Gianandrea Noseda, this scherzo da…
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Experience the powerful opening of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, performed live by the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Nosed…
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The third movement of Beethoven’s 9th is an oasis of beauty and reflection. In this Adagio molto e cantabile, the National Symphony Or…
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