Hamilton is celebrating 10 years on Broadway with a theatrical release of the show's proshot (professional shot stage production) that originally aired on Disney+ in 2020. During its decade-long run at New York's Richard Rodgers Theatre, the stage musical has taken on many forms, including the live stage recording and international tours. And recently there were plans to hold performances of the show at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Though, those plans were ultimately canceled earlier this year after President Donald Trump ousted the Democratic members of the Kennedy Center's bipartisan board and made himself chairman.At the red carpet for the theatrical premiere of the proshot, which releases in cinemas nationwide on Friday, Lin-Manuel Miranda spoke with Out about the show's decision not to perform for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. "Well, in one sense, we were lucky in that we didn't have a contract in place, so there were no legal ramifications to us pulling out," Miranda said on the red carpet. "Morally, it was not complicated, because the Kennedy Center has historically been a bipartisan birthplace for the best of our nation's arts. Trump's administration politicized that when they fired the board and Trump named himself head of it."He added, "We were just not going to participate in that if we had the option not to, and I'm very thankful we have the option not to... It was a very easy decision for us to not participate in what that's becoming."After the decision to cancel the performances was made in March, the center's new president, Richard Grenell, blasted Manuel and the company behind Hamilton on X, writing in a since-deleted post that the move was a "a publicity stunt that will backfire." Grenell also called Manuel "intolerant of people who don't agree with him politically," claiming that the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning creator and the musical's producer Jeffrey Seller "don't want Republicans going to their shows."Broadway legend Harvey Fierstein revealed earlier this year that he was banned from the Kennedy Center after he criticized Trump and called Grenell a "self-loathing queer." See on Instagram Shortly after Hamilton pulled out of the engagement, other artists who were slated to appear at the Kennedy Center either moved their performances to different venues or canceled their shows altogether. Insecure creator Issa Rae and Pulitzer Prize-winning folk musician Rhiannon Giddens are just two of the people who decided to pass on performing at the iconic venue.After Giddens moved her show to a different venue, she explained her reasoning in a post on Threads, echoing what Miranda and the Hamilton cast said, "I cannot in good conscience play at The Kennedy Center with the change in programming direction forced on the institution by this new board."