The District of Columbia will close numerous streets near the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Thursday evening, including the north- and southbound lanes of Rock Creek Parkway from Virginia Avenue, Northwest, to Shoreham Drive, Northwest. The National Symphony Orchestra will present a Brahms and Scriabin program this evening, an event that would not typically prompt road closures. But the center will also also host a premiere of Melania, a documentary about Melania Trump, on Thursday evening. Numerous boldfaced names are expected at the event, the Hollywood Reporter reports, including the rapper Waka Flocka Flame, former NYC mayor Eric Adams, and Melania Trump’s husband, who is the President of the United States. Two after-parties will follow the screening, the New York Post reports. The road closures come at a trying time for local motorists contending with arguably navigable thoroughfares as the District struggles to clear “snowcrete” from last weekend’s winter storm. Anna Marina Savvidis, Washingtonian’s creative director, braved those streets to drive into the office Thursday morning and described very slow going, with unpredictable zipper merges and often one lane out of three available. Add some Melania-adjacent road closures to the equation and you might want to leave now if you hope to get home for dinner. A spokesperson for the National Park Service confirmed that Rock Creek will be closed in both directions between the aforementioned points from 3 PM to 11:30 PM. Per the DC police, these streets will be closed from 3 PM-11 PM: • Rock Creek Parkway from Virginia Avenue to Potomac River Freeway, SW • F Street from Rock Creek Parkway to 25th Street, NW • 25th Street, NW from Virginia Avenue to F Street, NW Only attendees, residents of these streets, or people making deliveries to the Kennedy Center will be permitted on these streets from 3 PM-11 PM: • Jamal Kashoggi Way from Virginia Avenue to F Street, NW • 27th Street from K Street to Virginia Avenue, NW These streets are subject to closure: • Virginia Avenue from 22nd Street to Rock Creek Parkway, NW • 24th Street from K Street to Virginia Avenue, NW • New Hampshire Avenue from Washington Circle to Virginia Avenue, NW • I Street from 23rd Street to 26th Street, NW • H Street from 23rd Street to New Hampshire Avenue, NW • G Street from 23rd Street to Virginia Avenue, NW • Exit to I Street from northbound Potomac River FreewayThe post DC Will Close Streets Near “Melania” Screening Thursday as It Struggles to Clear “Snowcrete” From Roads first appeared on Washingtonian. ...read more read less