On Wednesday, Jeffrey Seller, producer of Broadway’s smash-hit Hamilton, announced the show would sever its long-standing ties with the Kennedy Center following the Trump administration’s takeover. The dismissal of several administrators caused Seller and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda to conclude the center had lost its “neutrality” and “spirit of bipartisanship.”
It’s a ludicrous suggestion, of course. The Kennedy Center has long been a taxpayer-funded shrine to cultural progressivism, putting on shows such as the kid-centric Dragtastic Dress-up and Oh God, A Show About Abortion, which begins with the line, “My parents are very supportive. My mom texted me, ‘Kill it tonight!’ and I’m like, ‘I already did, that’s why the show exists.’”
