The announced departure of Deborah F. Rutter, the center’s president since 2014, comes as the center continues to search for a new board chair while navigating a second Trump term.

Deborah Rutter led the Kennedy Center through a dramatic growth spurt and a global pandemic. Board chairman David M. Rubenstein will help seek her successor.

Comedian Conan O’Brien is set to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Kennedy Center said in a press release Thursday.

Conan O’Brien has been selected by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to receive the 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The prize, which is named to honor one of the world’s greatest humorists, will be awarded at a gala ...

Deborah Rutter, who’s served as the president of the Kennedy Center since 2014, will step down from the high-profile role at the end of the year. “After more than 10 extraordinary years in

Kennedy Center’s president since 2014, Deborah Rutter, will step down from her role at the end of the year amidst uncertainty in a new (returning?)

Conan O’Brien is the latest comedian to be feted at the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The former host of Conan and The Tonight Show will receive the award on March 23 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Deborah F. Rutter will leave her role as president of the Kennedy Center at the end of the year after a decade of leadership marked by expansion, innovation, and pandemic recovery.

Deborah Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center in D.C. since 2014, announced Monday she’d be stepping down from her leadership role at the end of the year.

Deborah F. Rutter, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has announced that she will step down from her position at the end of 2025. A replacement for Rutter, whose tenure began in 2014, has not been named.

Jefferson Performing Arts will continue its 47th season with two productions onstage in February. Learn more about True West and Murder on the Nile here!

If approved, Kennedy will control a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for roughly half the country.