Deborah Rutter served as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a decade. This week, she was fired. President Trump had replaced many board members with his own ...

President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman and replaced the Kennedy Center’s president Deborah Rutter with Trump ally Richard Grenell.

Deborah Rutter, who has led the Kennedy Center for more than a decade, will step down at the end of the year. Rutter has presided over an expansion of the center, both in programming and in a new ...

The announced departure of Deborah F. Rutter, the center’s president since 2014, comes as the center continues to search for a new board chair while navigating a second Trump term. By Javier C.

President Trump has been elected as the chairman of the board of trustees of the Kennedy Center. This change came into effect ...

Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter speaks to members of the press and guests during a preview of the REACH, an expansion project, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on May 29 ...

Deborah Rutter led the Kennedy Center through a dramatic growth spurt and a global pandemic. Board chairman David M.

Deborah F. Rutter will step down as president of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., at the end of the year, the New York Times reports. Her departure comes as ...

Rutter has focused on representing the diversity of arts in America, introducing hip-hop culture and social impact as key areas of programming. By Paul Grein Deborah F. Rutter, who has served as ...