The Kennedy Center is one of the nation’s premier performing arts centers, holding around 2,000 events each year. It’s a public-private partnership with most funding raised privately, but some ...

Trump’s Kennedy Center Makeover Clouds Future for TV Deal The rights are up after this year, and ratings for the CBS broadcast have been in decline, as Trump muses about hosting the Honors ...

O’Brien, 61, was named the 26th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize in mid-January, about three weeks before President Donald Trump upended the Kennedy Center by ousting longtime president Deborah ...

The comedian's lifetime achievement honor occurs amid unprecedented leadership changes and artistic protests at the national cultural center.

Rutter and Rubenstein, who announced O’Brien’s selection for the award shortly before Trump’s inauguration, were ousted from the center’s once bipartisan board by Trump.

On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien made sure the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ended ...

On Sunday, O’Brien specifically thanked Rubenstein and Rutter — drawing an extended round of applause — and also Kennedy Center staffers who, he said, were “worried about what the future ...

Conan O'Brien received the Mark Twain Prize at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as it undergoes changes since Trump's takeover.

Trump and his board suggested several artists for Kennedy Center Honors including Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Bocelli, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.

The president, who recently had himself installed as the center’s chairman, has called a meeting of its board to approve changes that would give him more input in the process.

Last month, the Trump administration fired the center’s longtime board chair, billionaire David Rubenstein, and director Deborah Rutter, with the president assuming the chair position himself.

Orioles owner David Rubenstein issued his first public comments since being replaced as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. On Wednesday, the Kennedy ...