25 stories by "Brett Zongker"
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Growing up in the age of social media, dealing with the drama of high school and feeling like an outcast all at the same time will provide some key ingredients for a n…
Oprah Winfrey has come a long way since her childhood years in a Mississippi shack with a poster of The Beatles on her bedroom wall. Sunday, she was honored with one of the Beatles she so lo…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Producers who have created the Tony Awards show for the past 12 years will be given a "clean slate" and a mandate to update the "Kennedy Center Honors," marking a new …
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts says Stephen Colbert will host this year's Kennedy Center Honors, bringing a new touch to the annual awards show....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen," a famous sculpture by Edgar Degas that can be seen in museums around the world, is coming to life in a new musical exploring the story o…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- That trademark falsetto behind "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry" and other hits from 50 years ago will help celebrate July 4 on the National Mall this year as Frankie Va…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hal Holbrook is in the midst of a marathon of theater and has no intention of stopping....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was named president of the Kennedy Center, becoming the first woman to lead the performing arts center since it opened in 19…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Creative industries led by Hollywood account for about $504 billion, or at least 3.2 percent of U.S. goods and services, the government said in its first official meas…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Washington theater with a long history of incubating Broadway-bound shows is getting a rebirth of its own while hosting a new world premiere from the creative team b…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Theater producers planning a Broadway revival of the musical comedy "Gigi" will open the production at the Kennedy Center in Washington....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ford's Theatre will reopen its doors and resume performances Wednesday, using private funding, even though the government shutdown has continued into a third week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The oldest continuously operating theater in the nation's capital that has drawn top performers dating back decades before the Civil War is getting a fresh start and a…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four major universities are joining theater companies in Boston, Baltimore, Washington and Atlanta in a project to commission new plays, music and dance compositions a…
The nation's capital is getting its first look at a story recalling the early days of the AIDS crisis when foot-dragging politicians and bureaucrats denied an unfolding epidemic that would k…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's capital is getting its first look at a story recalling the early days of the AIDS crisis when foot-dragging politicians and bureaucrats denied an unfoldin…
Before there was the Apollo in Harlem, there was the Howard Theatre in the nation's capital.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Washington National Opera, which recently merged with the Kennedy Center after struggling financially for years, announced an ambitious long-term agenda Tuesday, inclu…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Billionaire Russian investor Vladimir Potanin announced a $5 million gift Thursday to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to mark its 40th anniversary and suppo…
Billions of dollars in arts funding is serving a mostly wealthy, white audience that is shrinking while only a small chunk of money goes to emerging art groups that serve poorer communities …
The Kennedy Center's revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies" is moving to Broadway this summer.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Kennedy Center's revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies" is moving to Broadway this summer....
It's the first theatrical adaptation of a Grisham novel after a series of hit movies made from his legal thrillers, including "The Pelican Brief," "The Firm" and others.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kevin Spacey is offering some impromptu "street theater" to call on Congress for continued funding of the National Endowment for the Arts....
By BRETT ZONGKER 2010-10-21T13:53:04ZWASHINGTON (AP) -- Longtime news analyst Juan Williams, who has written extensively on race and civil rights, has been fired by National Publ…
