John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts [Washington]
type: Item
label: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
label: Kennedy Center @it
label: Centro John F. Kennedy para las Artes Escénicas @es
description: theatre building in Washington, USA
description: bouwwerk in Washington D.C. @nl
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 142025
Wikidata source: Q1631981
Field: architecture
Type of information: Performance venue
Importance: Not rated
Country: USA
City: Washington
GPS: Point(-77.0559 38.8957)
Web: www.kennedy-center.org
Address: 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566
Postal Code: 20566
EUTA research ID II: 495
EUTA building identifier: 6386
opening date: 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q8719053
Wikidata instance: Q3469910
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q192567
Carthalia ID: 4312
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1964-1967 for the federal government as national center for the performing arts. Officiall opened 8 Sep 1971 as John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Named after President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). In 2025 destroyed as an respectable arts center by a coup of President Donald Trump who was made president of the center's Board of Trustees, resulting in censorship of its programmes. - The complex contains three main theatres and several other halls: Opera House. Opened 5 Sep 1971 with Leonard Bernstein's Mass. Ca. 2200 seats. Concert Hall. Opened 9 Sep 1971 with a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra. 2442 seats. Eisenhower Theater. Opened 18 Oct 1971 with Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. 1163 seats. Terrace Theater. Built in the late 1970s by Philip Johnson. 513 seats. Family Theater. Built 2005, replacing the American Film Institute Theater. Opened 9 Dec 2005. 324 seats. Theater Lab. 399 seats. Millennium Stage.