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Encore Creativity singers from across the nation join together for a grand celebration of older adults in the arts with the joy of singing!

Celebrate the end of 2024 with John Oliver, who shares his warm, witty jokes in a new stand-up set. Oliver is an Emmy® and Writers Guild Award–winning writer and comedian, and is the host and producer of the HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

The NSO invites all current, retired, veteran, and prior service members and their families to a special FREE performance of the hottest holiday bash in town—A Holiday Pops! Get ready to sing along, laugh, and embrace the magic of the season with sparkling renditions of your favorite holiday classics, Broadway showstoppers, and beyond.

A Christmas celebration featuring glorious music performed by a 100 voice choir, full orchestra/band totaling 60 instrumentalists, plus 30 dancers and actors. Back by popular demand, noted gospel legend artist Yolanda Adams, as the special guest.

Washington, D.C.’s most dazzling holiday concert returns! Get ready to sing along, laugh, and embrace the magic of the season with sparkling renditions of your favorite holiday classics, Broadway showstoppers, and beyond. Featuring special guests including Broadway darling Jessica Vosk, the Heritage Signature Chorale, and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre narrating The Night Before Christmas*!

Buddy was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. This holiday season relive this heartwarming holiday classic on a giant screen as every note of John Debney’s wonderful score is played live to picture in: Elf™ in Concert!

In a live moderated conversation with John Grisham at the Kennedy Center, Ina Garten will discuss and elaborate on the themes of her memoir—from childhood to becoming an author of bestselling cookbooks and a celebrated television host.

Machel Montano—the “King of Soca”—turns 50 at the Kennedy Center with a black-tie birthday affair!

Sarah Silverman is a two-time Emmy Award®–winning comedian, actress, writer, and producer. Don’t miss her latest stand-up, which brings her silly and idiosyncratic perspective to the world.

French pianist Lise de la Salle—“a musical thinker of impressive weight with charm, imagination, and dazzling technique” (The Washington Post)—performs a Schumann masterwork, considered the ultimate romantic piano concerto. Marek Janowski, who in 2019 “conducted a truly memorable, exquisite rendition of Bruckner” with the NSO (Washington Classical Review), returns to lead the composer’s Symphony No. 4.

As the New York Times declares, Emanuel Ax’s performances are “never less than spellbinding.” Experience the power and passion of this modern master live as the seven-time Grammy winner performs Mozart’s fierce and far-reaching Piano Concerto No. 20. In a fitting masterpiece finale, former NSO Music Director Leonard Slatkin conducts Sir William Walton’s dark, dramatic First Symphony.