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Performing Arts
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
- How 'Schmigadoon!' made its way from streaming to the Broadway stage
- How 'taking chances' got 'Titaníque' from a basement theatre to Broadway
- From 'The Old Man' to 'Giant,' John Lithgow is still going strong
- The iconic South African theater that took on apartheid
- Suit asks court to force Trump administration to use 'The Kennedy Center' name
- Bill Maher is getting the Mark Twain Prize after all
- 8 architecture and culture groups sue Trump and the Kennedy Center board
- 'Movement never lies': 100 years of the Martha Graham Dance Company
- Kennedy Center board votes to close venue for two years for renovations
- Playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory discuss their newest play
- Kennedy Center president departs – months before the art complex's scheduled closing
- These dancers have found the perfect rehearsal space: a train station
- What's next for the Washington National Opera
- Would you go to a play by yourself? Theaters are hoping so
- Lesley Manville says her stage and screen careers 'feed each other'
- Internal memo details cosmetic changes and facility repairs to Kennedy Center
- Part comedy, part masochism: This stand-up show includes a public roast of each comic
- With virtual characters in real life, 'An Ark' experiments with mixed-reality performance
- The auteur of 'Strange Loop' tackles an opera like no other
- You have lots of questions about Trump's Kennedy Center renovation. We do, too