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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New Theaters Show, Hospital Benefit Delayed
Daily Herald, 19 August 1974, page 4
Because of recent strikes, the University Mall Twin Theaters, scheduled to open this week, will not open until Aug. 29, according to Bill Hutchinson, manager.
Mr. Hutchinson added that the premiere performance on that date will be a benefit for Utah Valley Hospital expansion. The hospital Pink Ladies are sponsoring the event.
Doors will open at 7 p.m. The motion picture to be shown at both theaters will be "Mame" starring Lucille Ball.
