Adams Shakespearean Theatre
Cedar City, Utah
In the early 1960s, business owners worried that the proposed Interstate 15 would divert tourists from Cedar City as they travelled to Zions and Bryce Canyon national parks. Fred C. Adams, a professor at Southern Utah State College, thought a theater festival might encourage passing tourists to exit the new freeway. For its first season in 1962, the Utah Shakespeare Festival used a makeshift outdoor platform as a stage, with the audience seated in folding chairs on the lawn. In 1977, the festival built the Adams Shakespearean Theatre, a replica of the original Globe Theatre.
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Salt Lake Tribune, 21 April 2006
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The Gem Theater was located in a sprawling masonry building on the corner of 200 South and State Street. Other shops in the building included Zion's Book Store, Tom's Barber Shop, the Crystal Lounge, and the Corina Cigars. Corina Cigars was forced to move after the real estate arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased the entire block in 1960. A Carl's Jr. restaurant outlet and a large parking lot now occupy the site.
