William Inge Theatre Festival

Festival Location: Independence, KS, USA

Festival State: Kansas Festivals

Festival Type(s): Arts Festivals, Cultural Festivals

Broadway and Hollywood meet in mid-America in the prairie town of Independence, Kansas, each year at the William Inge Theatre Festival. An internationally renowned playwright and accomplished actors and directors flock to this burg of 10,000 people for performances, public workshops and social events. Since its founding in 1981, writers such as Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, August Wilson, and Stephen Sondheim have traveled to southeast Kansas for this intimate and fun gathering of stage and screen talent.

A famous playwright accepts the festival's Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award. It is named after the late William Inge, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist of "Picnic" and Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Splendor in the Grass." Independence, Kansas, is Inge's hometown, and the populace volunteers by the hundreds to welcome travelers coming to pay homage to the town's favorite son.

William Inge Theatre Festival - When, Where and More Info Please

When: The William Inge Theatre Festival runs four days, usually the third week in April

Where: Independence, Kansas is 90 miles north of Tulsa, Oklahoma and 140 miles south of Kansas City, Missouri

More Info Please: For more info and up-to-the-minute dates and details call (800) 842-6063 ext. 5492 or visit the William Inge Theatre Festival web site.