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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Jeffrey Finn, top producer departs Sept. 2025 // Jane Raleigh, Dance Director replaced by Stephen Nakagawa

Nakagawa is part of "Washington Ballet"

see further

NYTimes.com/2025/08/25/arts/dance/kennedy-center-stephen-nakagawa.html

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THURS. Aug. 21, 2025

Dance Director and 2 employees

fired by Grenell, Trump's "president" of

the Kennedy Center, D.C. -- he wanted

more programming like TV's

So You Think You Can Dance (Fox TV

reality-competition series).

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As Donald John Trump

tightens grip on the D.C.

Center for Performing Arts

[ that was since its founding

a bipartisan and cooperative

institution in the District of

Columbia ]

the top official overseeing

theater at JFK Center is

leaving in September, throwing

into question the stability of

the institution's financial

viability . . .

nytimes.com/2025/08/15/theater/jeffrey-finn-kennedy-center.theater.html

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