The William Inge Theatre Festival, the official State Theatre Festival of Kansas and hosted every year by Independence Community College, was created 38 years ago as the first festival to honor playwrights themselves. The craft of playwriting has changed over time, the audience for theatre has changed, and the Festival found itself in danger of becoming irrelevant. Producing Director Hannah Joyce-Hoven describes how the Festival has been reborn through embracing change while preserving the past.
