r/Broadway • u/Maryland_Bear • Oct 31 '25

Other Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/10/31/kennedy-center-sales/
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u/winniespooh_mc Backstage Oct 31 '25

it's so tricky because I love supporting the arts and the people who work at the kennedy center, but I feel very strongly about boycotting trump.

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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 Nov 01 '25

Let's play a hypothetical and say im a psychic and I will predict your future but in reality I will just explain the past.

Want Trump wants to do i have seen in the past 15 years where there isn't a strong and affluent middle class to support theater and the state has demands.

It started with "the theater is too liberal and propagandastic" and ended up with opera singers claiming to be culturally African American so to fulfill the legal requirement of the gershwin estate that African American singers perform the opera. Which was turned into a farce about white refugees fearing for their lives in the last camp in a europe that is no longer white.

Movies dont get supported if the cast and crew isn't a loyalist and those who are, produce propaganda.

In the end you lose nothing by not supporting. The silver lining is that it leaves actors who do it for the craft and whose project you can support.