(via The Handbasket) by Marisa Kabas
Tonight at the Kennedy Center, legendary alternative rock band Guster took the stage to perform with the National Symphony Orchestra. But the audience got an extra surprise when the band brought on part of the cast of Finn—a children’s musical whose run at the center was recently canceled because of the new presidential administration’s vicious crackdown on the arts—to help them perform their song Hard Times.
What used to be one of the most prestigious venues in the nation has fallen from grace since Donald Trump’s inauguration and subsequent dismantling of the cultural institution’s board of directors—and the radical overhaul has led to cancelled performances and fear about what it means to perform at the center in its current iteration.
The cancellation of Finn’s run at the center was announced shortly after Trump installed a team of loyalists to the board, including Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, and Andrea Wynn, the wife of billionaire Steve Wynn.
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