After installing himself as chairman, Trump has expressed a desire to stage "non-woke" musicals at the Kennedy Center, ...

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 ...

Opera America has announced that Deborah F. Rutter, former president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will be the keynote speaker at Opera Conference 2025. Rutter served as the first ...

By Paul Grein UPDATE (Feb. 12): Deborah F. Rutter, the third president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, exited that position today, months ahead of schedule, after she was ...

Deborah Rutter served as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a decade. This week, she was fired. President Trump had replaced many board members with his own ...

Deborah Rutter, who has led the Kennedy Center for more than a decade, will step down at the end of the year. Rutter has presided over an expansion of the center, both in programming and in a new ...

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It also voted to terminate Deborah Rutter as president and made former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell interim president, according to multiple people with knowledge of ...