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Chinese dragon mythology, martial arts, and stunning voices combine as an unlikely young duo embarks on a daring adventure in this world premiere musical featuring an original story and inspiring songs by Marcus Yi.

Grammy–winning virtuoso Yefim Bronfman performs one of the most expansive and ambitious compositions for piano with a “marvel of digital dexterity, warmly romantic sentiment, and jaw-dropping bravura” (Chicago Tribune). Fanfares of fate follow as Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Tchaikovsky’s explosive Symphony No. 4—an evolution of wistful poetry to optimism and ultimately, renewed love of life.

In Nutcracker Suite, explosive tap dance meets your favorite holiday classic. This Nutcracker boogies, slides, struts, and dives into Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s intoxicating interpretation of the Tchaikovsky classic.

Two x Four makes its return to the Fortas season for the first time since 2013! Violinists Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo are joined by members of the Juilliard Orchestra to perform double concertos. 

Set today in the Shear Madness hairstyling salon, this record-breaking comedy is Washington’s hilarious whodunit. After more than 17,800 performances, the show has stayed in great shape. Performances are ongoing.

This major permanent exhibit in the massive roof-level Atrium will explore Kennedy’s appreciation and promotion of the arts and why the Kennedy Center came to be the living memorial to him and his ideals.

Launched as a partnership between Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, this program offers internationally acclaimed dance classes for people with Parkinson’s Disease in more than 250 communities and 24 countries. 

KCBB live is the fifth and final episode of the podcast season. It is a celebration of the power of stories and what happens when we equip the next generation to design solutions that are rooted in the voices of their people.

The career of Sunny Jain is a celebration of cultural diaspora: deep-rooted tradition that ripples outward, changing—and being changed by—the cultures that it touches. He is a composer, drummer, dhol player, and thought leader.

Rogê is a Latin Grammy®-nominated and Brazilian Music Awards-granted artist, songwriter, composer, and musician, considered to be a principal part of the Brazilian popular music scene revival (MPB).

KCBB live is the fifth and final episode of the podcast season. It is a celebration of the power of stories and what happens when we equip the next generation to design solutions that are rooted in the voices of their people.

The career of Sunny Jain is a celebration of cultural diaspora: deep-rooted tradition that ripples outward, changing—and being changed by—the cultures that it touches. He is a composer, drummer, dhol player, and thought leader.

Rogê is a Latin Grammy®-nominated and Brazilian Music Awards-granted artist, songwriter, composer, and musician, considered to be a principal part of the Brazilian popular music scene revival (MPB).

Singer/songwriter Brian Lopez has been influential in defining the desert noir sound of the American Southwest over the past two decades. His recently released fourth solo album TIDAL exudes the famed desert romantic’s sweet magnetism and characteristic Southwestern pop psychedelic tendencies.

The hit family opera returns for the holidays, based on the award-winning children’s book and featuring music from Tony®-winning composer Jeanine Tesori.

Get ready to sing along, laugh, and embrace the magic of the season at the hottest holiday bash in town! Warm your spirit at our sparkling celebration as Norm Lewis lights up the festively decorated Concert Hall with holiday showstoppers and selections from his best-selling Christmas album, along with favorites that make him one of Broadway’s most sought-after leading men.

Washington, D.C.’s favorite holiday tradition returns! Laurence Equilbey makes her much-anticipated debut conducting the NSO, the University of Maryland Concert Choir, and an all-star lineup of soloists in Handel’s greatest oratorio celebration. Composed in 1741, Messiah is as potent today as it was more than 280 years ago, inspiring joy and wonder from both first-time listeners and those who return every year.

Swing in the New Year with Jazzmeia Horn and her sensational big band! With a name that speaks for itself, the mesmerizing vocalist transports audiences to a bygone era of elegance and improvisation. Get ready for a night of fiery new music and the timeless allure of big-band jazz.

Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Washington, D.C., in 2024. When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past, and send himself... back to the future.

American Ballet Theatre’s quintessential production of Swan Lake returns to pull D.C. audiences back under its spell. Journey to the enchanted lake, complete with soaring choreography, hauntingly beautiful music, and extravagant sets.

For its annual Kennedy Center engagement, the beloved company presents Ailey classics and new works, including Ailey’s signature Revelations.

Winner of five Tony® Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, COMPANY—Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s groundbreaking musical comedy—is at once boldly sophisticated, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious. It’s Bobbie’s 35th birthday party, and all her friends keep asking, why isn’t she married? Why can’t she find the right man, and isn’t it time to settle down and start a family? As Bobbie searches for answers, she discovers why being single, being married, and being alive in the 21st century could drive a person crazy.

NSO Music Director Gianandrea Noseda conducts the NSO in Wagner: The Ring Without Words (compiled by Lorin Maazel). All the drama of Wagner’s four operas is here, told through the pure power of the orchestra.

Don’t miss the electrifying new musical about “the greatest R&B group of all time.” With their signature dance moves and harmonies, The Temptations rose to the top of the charts, and their moving story still resonates five decades later. The show features such iconic hits as “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” and many more.

The carefree Parisian nightlife of Offenbach’s La Périchole finds its match—Prohibition-Era New Orleans—in this reimagined, jazz-infused comedy.

Cynthia Erivo has taken the world by storm since bursting onto the West End and Broadway stages in The Color Purple. An actress, singer, author, and producer, Erivo has received worldwide critical acclaim for her work, including Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Awards as well as Academy Award, Golden Globe, and SAG nominations. She is joined in performance by friends Joaquina Kalukango and Ben Platt.

Get ready to sing along, laugh, and embrace the magic of the season at the hottest holiday bash in town! Warm your spirit at our sparkling celebration as Norm Lewis lights up the festively decorated Concert Hall with holiday showstoppers and selections from his best-selling Christmas album, along with favorites that make him one of Broadway’s most sought-after leading men.

Join us as Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Award–winning rapper and Kennedy Center Hip Hop Culture Council Member Common returns to the Center for an intimate conversation with writer Marcus J. Moore as he reflects on his storied career, hip hop’s 50th anniversary, and the multitude of ways that hip hop has served as the catalyst for his multi-hyphenate life as an artist, activist, producer, philanthropist, and change agent.

From the producer of The Lion King and Aladdin, Frozen, the Tony® Award–nominated Best Musical, is now on tour across North America—and the critics rave, “It’s simply magical!” (LA Daily News). Frozen features the songs you know and love from the original Oscar®-winning film, plus an expanded score with a dozen new numbers by the film’s songwriters, Oscar winner Kristen Anderson-Lopez and EGOT winner Robert Lopez. It’s everything you want in a musical: It’s moving. It’s spectacular. And above all, it’s pure Broadway joy.

Seth Meyers is an Emmy Award–winning writer, a New York Times bestselling author, and the host of Late Night with Seth Meyers. Following his debut stand-up special Lobby Baby, Meyers brings brand new stand-up to the Eisenhower Theater!

Straight from New York City, Modi is bringing his legendary stand-up comedy to audiences across the United States.

Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Washington, D.C., in 2024. When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past, and send himself... back to the future.

The career of Sunny Jain is a celebration of cultural diaspora: deep-rooted tradition that ripples outward, changing—and being changed by—the cultures that it touches. He is a composer, drummer, dhol player, and thought leader.

Rogê is a Latin Grammy®-nominated and Brazilian Music Awards-granted artist, songwriter, composer, and musician, considered to be a principal part of the Brazilian popular music scene revival (MPB).

Singer/songwriter Brian Lopez has been influential in defining the desert noir sound of the American Southwest over the past two decades. His recently released fourth solo album TIDAL exudes the famed desert romantic’s sweet magnetism and characteristic Southwestern pop psychedelic tendencies.

Please join the Cafritz Young Artists of Washington National Opera in a very special performance honoring one of today’s greatest artists, Renée Fleming. The program will have selections highlighting both her spectacular career and her contribution to opera and beyond.

Benjamin Dakota Rogers wields one of those distinct, immediate, and truly wild voices. With a studied nod to old-time and bluegrass rhythms, his unvarnished sound effectively smashes the barrier between past and present.

Grammy® winners Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer will lead and all ages sing-along, strum-along ukulele jam session. Come strum, come sing, come join the fun community and the joy of uke! Other small instruments welcome. Join the chorus, join the band.

Multi-talented artist Rozálie captivates audiences with her unique blend of music and performance. As well as being a charismatic singer, accordionist, actress and dancer, Rozálie’s songwriting skills were recently recognized with a nomination for the prestigious Czech music award, Ceny Anděl, with her debut album Korzetiér.

Dawn Landes is a North Carolina–based singer-songwriter whose music you might have heard if you watch The Good Wife, House, or Gossip Girl. Along with releasing six albums since 2005 (and an EP inspired by yé-yé, ‘60s French pop music), she’s a frequent collaborator with contemporaries such as Sufjan Stevens, Norah Jones, and composer Nico Muhly.

Join the Covington Jazz Quartet in a concert that’s a tribute to the great pianist Art Tatum, and the musicians inspired by him. Featuring Nassar Abadey, Herman Burney, Charles Covington, and Sandy Crawford.

“Going deep, bravely into the pain” is how activist-artist Madame Gandhi describes Vibrations, her third studio album—and could easily double as a subtitle for it. Vibrations is just as effervescently escapist as its name implies. Because when the vocalist-percussionist (real name: Kiran Gandhi) came out of isolation, she was a different person: uplifted, vivacious, content.

The Ndlovu Youth Choir’s incredible run on America’s Got Talent (season 14) made them the first choir in the history of either AGT or Britain’s Got Talent to reach the finals. Their soul-stirring performances won hearts and minds around the world.

Presented by District of Raga and IDEA in collaboration with the Kennedy Center

IDEA will present Jhankaar, a rhythmic explosion to honor and mark Diwali or Deepavali, the festival of lights traditionally celebrated in India with bursting of firecrackers.

Free tickets will also be available at the Hall of States Box Office on the day of the performance, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

Led by the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera, and Kennedy Center's Social Impact department, The Cartography Project is a multi-year commissioning project engaging artists from around the nation to map Black dignity.

Charly Lowry, a musical powerhouse from Pembroke, NC, is proud to be an Indigenous woman belonging to the Lumbee/Tuscarora Tribes. As an “Artivist,” she is compassionate as it pertains to raising awareness around issues that plague under-recognized and under-resourced communities.

A youthful passion combined with highly refined vocal skills and sensuous musicality—these are the qualities that best define the Youth Choir Kamer… Founded in 1990 by Māris Sirmais, the choir is now under the artistic direction of principal conductor Jurgis Cābulis.