THE ARTS/STAGE

Budget Response: President Bush has recommended to Congress an unchanged $176-million budget for the National Endowment for the Arts for fiscal 1993 and a substantial increase for the National Endowment for the Humanities from $176 million to $187.1 million. NEH Chairman Lynne V. Cheney (wife of Defense Secretary Dick Cheney) said, “The new funds will allow NEH to promote national progress in humanities education, research and preservation, and to the study and public understanding of history, literature, foreign languages and other humanities disciplines in this country.” NEA Chairman John E. Frohnmayer had no immediate comment.