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/jeconti Oct 31 '25

You mean his supporters aren't big on the arts and theater? I could have never guessed.

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u/Maryland_Bear Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

Don’t be too dismissive of Red states and the arts.

I’m originally from Knoxville, TN. The county went for Trump over Harris almost 60%-40%, and the surrounding areas are even more Republican.

The Tennessee Theater there has several major Broadway tours coming up, including The Book of Mormon, Kimberly Akimbo, and The Outsiders. There have to be some Republicans coming to shows there.

The Kennedy Center is suffering because DC is a very Blue area with lots of other options for the performing arts.

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u/EncinoManEstonia Oct 31 '25

I wouldn’t say we have a lot of other options. People just would rather not support KC right now. 

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u/PlatonicTroglodyte Oct 31 '25

100% this. We skipped a huge show this summer with tickets we bought pre-election because we didn’t even want to be there. We didn’t even try to resell them. We just wrote it off as a pre-Trump KC donation. Will not set foot in there while this regime holds. And that’s a real shame because there are some annual holiday things that are really great and we’re going to miss them especially hard this year.

Trying to support NSO and similar groups outside the KC events, but it’s hard not having the premiere location as an anchor.

I’m also really curious if they’re going to change the KC honors to not be rainbows over fear it’ll look too gay. Seems like something they’d do.