The Kennedy Center Honors, however, are a different matter altogether—their decline is not a local Beltway matter but a problem of national importance.

Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees The Kennedy Center Honors will return in December with a class that includes Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, "Saturday Night Live ...

It was a musical evening at the Kennedy Center Honors — so musical, it turned out, that even Robert De Niro played piano. Before anyone was lionized at the annual ceremony on Sunday night ...

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has had a chance of leadership, and that could affect who gets honored.

President Donald Trump wants to lavish his personal friends with Kennedy Center Honors, after parachuting himself into the hot seat at the cultural mecca. Earlier this month, Trump, who reportedly ...

He skipped the Kennedy Center Honors in 2018, traditionally attended by sitting presidents. A few of that year's honorees had ...

He skipped the Kennedy Center Honors in 2018, traditionally attended ... including the singer Cher and theater artist Lin-Manuel Miranda. On Monday, a longtime ally, Richard Grenell, was named ...

The move represents a swift takeover by Trump and his allies of a cultural institution in Washington that is known for its signature Kennedy Center Honors performances and is home to the National ...