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Cast Announced for Broadway Center Stage: Chess
The Kennedy Center's launches Broadway Center Stage, its new series of musicals presented in a semi-staged concert format, February 14–18 with Chess. The cast features Tony Award nominees and winners Raúl Esparza (Company, the Kennedy Center’s Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along), Ramin Karimloo (Anastasia), Ruthie Ann Miles (The King and I, Here Lies Love), and Karen Olivo (West Side Story, In the Heights). The 1986 musical created by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Tim Rice will be directed by Tony Award® winner Michael Mayer with a new book by Emmy® and Golden Globe Award®–winning writer Danny Strong.
Cast Announced for Broadway Center Stage: Chess: Learn MoreKennedy Center News Now Online
Kennedy Center News is now available to read online! The January-February issue features the Broadway hit musical On Your Feet! and Tony® winning play The Humans, a semi-staged concert of Chess, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, more Leonard Bernstein at 100 performances, a Lunar New Year celebration, and much more!
Kennedy Center News Now Online: Learn MoreDIRECT CURRENT On Sale Now
Modern masterpieces, cutting-edge composition, dance, drag, film, jazz, Hip Hop, video games, electronica, ecology, and activism all converge at the inaugural season of DIRECT CURRENT, the Kennedy Center’s celebration of contemporary culture, March 5–19, 2018. Performances and events will take place at the Kennedy Center and across D.C. through new partnerships with the Phillips Collection, Union Market, 9:30 Club, and Dupont Underground. The inaugural season traces an artistic narrative from the 1960s to the present through a thoughtfully curated collection of work—almost all of which draws on multiple disciplines—by some of America’s foremost cultural risk-takers and pioneers including Taylor Mac, John Adams, Derek Bermel, Philip Glass, Paola Prestini, Nathaniel Stookey, Julia Wolfe, Myra Melford, and National Sawdust, along with Kennedy Center artists Mason Bates, Jason Moran, Damian Woetzel, and the National Symphony Orchestra. Tickets are on sale now.
DIRECT CURRENT On Sale Now: Learn MoreCelebrating Leonard Bernstein at 100
The Washington-area arts community is thrilled to celebrate the international centennial celebration of Leonard Bernstein at 100 — a year of of local, national, and worldwide events that pay tribute to this incomparable artist whose influence and impact on arts and culture in the U.S. and around the world have transcended genres and generations. Throughout the celebration, performances of theater, classical, jazz, choral works, dance and education events will explore and celebrate the many facets of Leonard Bernstein as musician, composer, educator, and humanitarian.
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