Kennedy Center

A portion of Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway that had been shutdown due to repair work since Thursday reopened Sunday evening after crews finished their work nearly 36 hours ahead of schedule, the Kennedy Center said in statement.

Boston’s EYP architects won a competition to outfit the space, which will close briefly in 2020

The section will close to all traffic starting Thursday, to allow for the installation of a new pedestrian bridge that will connect the arts center to the riverfront.

Comedian Dave Chappelle will be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor this year, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced.

For the first time, the D.C.-based Kennedy Center is giving its highest comedy honor to a District native. The center announced Tuesday that Dave Chappelle will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Byah!! A hometown hero will receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center.

Part of Rock Creek Parkway will be closed for all of Friday and Monday’s rush hours, as well as the weekend.

Washington’s National Theatre has been in business since 1835, yet its archives are largely stuffed into a single small dressing room on the fourth floor. The collection, with playbills and photographs that in some cases are more than a…

A busy stretch of Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, near the Kennedy Center, will close to all traffic this weekend and is likely to create significant backups and detours for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians.

Three college students visiting Washington went on a ride Tuesday that few people ever get to take: they were hoisted in harnesses up an elevator shaft at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is racing to finish the Reach, its new 72,000-square-foot addition, while also entering the final fundraising push on the project.

Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — a prodigious Broadway hit this season — will begin a two-year national tour with a launch at the Kennedy Center in August 2020, the show’s producers and the center announced Thursday. …

In a slew of new political appointments announced Tuesday, President Donald Trump has appointed ten new members of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees. The most high-profile among them are actor Jon Voight and former Arkansas governor…

There was a several year period during which the Kennedy Center’s major festivals focused on specific cultural regions, including the Arabian peninsula, Mexico, India, Ireland, and Scandinavia, which is reasonable given the area’s…

Children from the Department of Recreation’s Southeast Tennis and Learning Center (SETLC) are entertaining and educating audiences from ‘East of the River’ to the Kennedy Center with their 13th annual “Blacks in Wax” performance, with this…

WASHINGTON — Several law enforcement agencies based in the D.C. region will be running training drills inside the Kennedy Center on Tuesday, and the public could see an unusual amount of police activity in the area as a result.

Tens of thousands of American high school students each year flock to the National Mall to look up at the larger-than-life monuments to the Founding Fathers: the 554-foot Washington obelisk and the 80,000-square-foot temple to Jefferson on…