Shutdown plan jolts performers


The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. — Caroline Gutman/The New York Times

THE abrupt announcement by President Donald Trump that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts would close this summer for a two-year construction project plunged the Washington cultural institution into uncertainty, raising questions about where its orchestra would play and what would happen to its subs­cri­bers and its hundreds of employees.

“We’re kind of in shock right now,” said Anne Vantine, the president of a local union that represents box office workers.

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