Mere Mortals, performed by the San Francisco Ballet.

In February 2025, President Donald Trump took over as the chairman of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, turning what had long been a nonpartisan bastion of creative performance into a political firebrand. Some acts, including locals like the San Francisco International Pride Orchestra, saw their invitations to perform rescinded. Others, like W. Kamau Bell, took the opportunity as a chance to speak truth to power and continued on........

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