Quintessence Theatre opened its latest production over the weekend with an urgent plea to the audience over the state of arts funding: Call your representatives. The Mount Airy theater company is one of dozens of arts organizations in Pennsylvania — and hundreds across the country — that had been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for the year,

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year to individuals and institutions around the country.