The Kennedy Center, Cashing in

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 29, 1989 | Copyright information

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts should be the pride of the nation's capital, a beacon of culture for Americans for every level of society. Instead, it's a showplace for the rich.

The center practices pocketbook discrimination. Ticket prices are so high that working Americans can't afford to go there.

The price of a good seat for two recent offerings at the Kennedy Center was $42 and $40. Elsewhere in the District, a second-row seat at the Arena Stage cost less than $21, and an orchestra seat at the Folger cost $27-and that's for Shakespeare.

It is true that an ...

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