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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Burglars Hit Struggling Community Theater
KUTV News, 9 March 2006
Article Summary:
Thieves pried open a door at the Academy of Performing Arts and stole a $1,000 sound system, a $600 camcorder, two computers, and hundreds of dollars in cash and credit card receipts, and even candy from the concession stand. The struggling community theater operates on a shoestring with volunteers and very little money. Donations and garage sales have helped keep the theater running.
