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Inge Festival to Honor Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Lynn Nottage

The William Inge Theater Festival will celebrate its 39th anniversary April 21-23, 2022 by honoring Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage with the Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater Award.

Shannon TL Kearns is summer 2021 Playwright-in-Residence

The William Inge Center for the Arts is thrilled to welcome Shannon TL Kearns to Independence, Kansas as the summer 2021 playwright-in-residence at William Inge’s boyhood home.  The William Inge… Read More

The Inge Center welcomes Tim J. Lord as playwright-in-residence

After a year-long hiatus, the Inge Center is thrilled to welcome Tim J. Lord to Kansas as a playwright-in-residence at William Inge’s boyhood home at the end of this month. … Read More

The 19th Edition of “24 Hour Plays: ICC” Scheduled August 28, 2021

“The High School 24 Hour Plays: ICC” returns from a COVID hibernation in a public performance at 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. Sponsored by Independence Community College Theatre Department… Read More

We stand with black playwrights and theater artists.

Black lives matter. The Inge Center stands with black playwrights and black theater artists, and we commit to uplifting their voices now and into the future. The murder of George… Read More

Lynn Nottage to receive the Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater Award

The 39th William Inge Theater Festival will welcome two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage to Kansas to receive the Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater Award, which will be presented… Read More

Gina Femia is 2020 Inge Festival New Voices Winner

Playwright Gina Femia is the recipient of the 2020 William Inge Theatre Festival’s Otis Guernsey New Voices in the American Theatre Award, which recognizes substantial early contributions to the contemporary… Read More