“Hamilton” cancels the performance of the Kennedy Center: NPR

The successful musical Hamilton Cancels his race in 2026 at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC is in response to President Trump Decision to take over The establishment of art last month.

According to a declaration of Hamilton Producer Jeffrey Vender on X, “The recent purge of the Trump Administration of Professional Staff and Events in Arts of the Show when originally produced by the Kennedy Center flies in front of everything that this national center represents.”

The declaration continues by explaining that the decision to cancel was a commercial decision, as it would have been “financially and personally devastating for the employees of Hamilton If the new management of Kennedy Center suddenly canceled or reconstituted our commitment. “”

The new president of the Center Richard Grenell, described the move as “coup de publicity that will turn around”. In a post on xGrenell wrote that Hamilton The Lin-Manuel Miranda creator “is intolerant people who do not agree with him politically”, and that Miranda and the sellers “do not want the Republicans to go to their shows”.

Hamilton Joined a growing list of artists and productions who have decided to store links with the Kennedy Center. The actor and producer Issa Rae, the rock group Low Cut Connie, the mystery writer Louise Penny, and even more have canceled the next appearances. The folk musician winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rhiannon Giddens Writing in the threads“I cannot play in good conscience at the Kennedy Center with the change of forced programming management of the institution by this new advice.”

Some artists have decided to continue to perform at Kennedy Center despite the change in leadership. The chief of the Marin Alsop conductor has kept his recent performances thereTo say to NPR “It is really important, especially in this time that we remember and celebrate the importance of art in our lives … You know, music, art, these are not partisan problems.”

The actor W. Kamau Bell, no fan of President Trump, opened his recent tour at Kennedy Center. He told NPR: “The Kennedy Center is in a city called Washington, DC, as much as Maga directs the White House, perhaps, they do not direct Washington, DC”