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Friday, October 31, 2025

Many staff firings / exits : Kennedy Center, D.C. : worst attendance for Symphony since PANDEMIC

Oct. 31, 2025

Washington POST (Jeff Bezos, Publisher)

reports that the Trump / Kennedy Center has had

plummeting sales for its main 3 venues :

see today's online article by

Travis M. Andrews, Jeremy B. Merrill, Shelly Tan

+ analysis of previous years recent and historic good/bad

seasons of MUSIC of all kinds -- stage plays / musicals


Sept. 11, 2025

Kevin Struthers had worked at the D.C. based

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for 30 years.

His firing was announced and reported on in

"WASHINGTON POST" -- this adds to many

staff exits, some with no warning or retirement allowed.

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Washingtonpost dot-com reports the 36% fall

in subscription renewals and new "memberships"

on June 3, 2025 -- story by Travis Andrews, reporter

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Another 21 employees have been fired

Friday May 2, 2025,

bringing the total fired

to

40 staff members since the Board

President and CEO both were sacked

and replaced with POTUS Trump 2.0

himself at the head of this

Washington, D.C. institution.

Also Trump advisor Richard Grennell is

running the staff and programming.

nytimes.com/2025/05/02/arts/NEA.html

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