The announced departure of Deborah F. Rutter, the center’s president since 2014, comes as the center continues to search for ...

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With over 2,000 diverse performances each year — and two major televised awards shows, Kennedy Center Honors and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — the Center attracts 1.5 million ticketholders ...

By Paul Grein Deborah F. Rutter, who has served as president of the Kennedy Center since 2014, has announced her decision to step down at the end of this year. The Center’s board of trustees has ...

The Kennedy Center, which hosts more than 2,000 performances every year, was guided by Rutter’s leadership for more than a decade. In a statement released Monday, Rutter said she felt it was ...

David Rubenstein will continue to serve as chairman while the nonprofit seeks her successor. Deborah Rutter is stepping down as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ...

When Josiah Martelle was about 8 years old, he sat in the audience of the Warren Community Center watching the cast of Warren ...