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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[Moving Pictures at Star Theatre]
Panguitch Progress, 13 June 1913, page 1
The moving pictures of the Panguitch Star Theatre are having well filled houses. The reason there is such a large attendance is people are pleased, enjoy themselves and often see much that it instructive and beneficial. Electric lights and fine music and costly films are drawing crowds.