'Hamilton' cancels Kennedy Center run after Trump takeover

“Hamilton,” the philharmonic sensation astir the titular Founding Father and the commencement of the United States, volition nary longer play astatine the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts amid President Trump’s caller relation arsenic the chairman.

Trump announced successful February that helium intended to appoint himself chairman and instantly terminate members of the committee of trustees “who bash not stock our Vision for a Golden Age successful Arts and Culture.” Days later, the recently appointed board, consisting of the president’s allies, voted to corroborate him arsenic the chairman.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and archetypal prima of “Hamilton,” said successful an interrogation with the New York Times Wednesday that helium was preemptively canceling the show’s show astatine the storied venue successful effect to Trump’s decision.

“This latest enactment by Trump means it’s not the Kennedy Center arsenic we knew it,” Miranda said. “The Kennedy Center was not created successful this spirit, and we’re not going to beryllium a portion of it portion it is the Trump Kennedy Center. We’re conscionable not going to beryllium portion of it.”

The amusement was slated to beryllium performed astatine the Washington, D.C., venue from March 3 to April 26, 2026 arsenic a portion of the center’s solemnisation of the 250th day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

In a connection Wednesday to The Times, “Hamilton” shaper Jeffrey Seller said the Kennedy Center was founded with “a sincere bipartisan spirit” — 1 helium believes is present gone. “In caller weeks, we person sadly seen decades of Kennedy Center neutrality beryllium destroyed,” helium said.

He said the squad down the Tony-winning show, which debuted successful 2015 and has antecedently played astatine the venue twice, could not “in bully conscience enactment and beryllium a portion of this caller civilization that is being imposed connected the Kennedy Center.”

Seller besides clarified that the determination to cancel the show was not a stance against the Trump medication but specifically “the partisan policies of the Kennedy Center arsenic a effect of his caller takeover.”

“Political disagreement and statement are captious expressions of democracy. These basal concepts of state are astatine the precise bosom of ‘Hamilton.’ However, immoderate institutions are ineffable and should beryllium protected from politics. The Kennedy Center is 1 specified institution,” Seller said.