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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Novelty Theater Fire
Salt Lake Tribune, 17 October 1895, page 7
Yesterday morning at about 2 o'clock fire was discovered in the old Novelty theater building on Twenty-fifth street, belonging to Stevens Bros. The fire started under the stage, and before it could be brought under control had burned out the stage and rear portion of the building.
The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin, as shavings smelling strongly of kerosene were found under the stage. The loss is estimated at $1000, covered by insurance.
