Rohan Sengupta

Your school announces that the drama program is being cut. Or there won't be another theater teacher. Or next year's musical has a much smaller budget. You're a student. You don't control the school budget, you don't sit on the school board, and you might not even be old enough to vote. So what can you actually do? I used to think arts advocacy was mostly something adults did. Even the word "advocacy" sounded pretty official to me. I pictured meetings, politicians, budgets, and people who...

When people think of William Shakespeare, they usually think of famous plays like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, or Hamlet. But what many people don't realize is that some of these plays could have been lost forever if it wasn't for a book called the First Folio. The First Folio was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare died. Two of his friends and fellow actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, put it together because they believed Shakespeare's plays were too important to disappear....

As a theater student in Seattle, I've seen firsthand how much the arts mean to this city. Whether it's watching a show at Seattle Rep, seeing a student performance at ACT Theatre, or walking through Capitol Hill and hearing live music spill out onto the sidewalk, the arts are everywhere. They make Seattle feel alive. But something I don't think enough people realize is that the arts also help keep Seattle's economy moving. When people talk about what makes Seattle successful, they usually...