The Kennedy Center
America's national performing arts center, sprawled along the Potomac with six stages going year-round. The National Symphony, the Opera, and the Ballet all live here - and the Millennium Stage puts...
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The Kennedy Center is the big one - the official national performing arts center, a huge complex on the Potomac River with six performance spaces running an enormous range of programming all year. The National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, and Washington Ballet all call it home.
The flagship rooms are the Concert Hall (2,400 seats), the Opera House (2,400), and the Eisenhower Theater (1,100). But here's the part nobody tells you: the Millennium Stage puts on a free performance every single day, open to anyone who walks in. That makes one of the country's grandest arts institutions genuinely free to sample - a rare thing.
Getting here, take the Foggy Bottom Metro stop and hop the free shuttle the rest of the way - it's the easy play. Whether you're going big with the opera or just catching a free Millennium set, there's a night here for you. Browse Kennedy Center shows on Evil Tickets and plan your visit to America's performing arts home.
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