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 Picture House Nearly Completed
Box Elder News, 27 February 1917, page 1
About the only remaining work to he done on the Elberta Theatre is the installation of the seats. The orchestra stand is now completed and ready for the painter. There Is a little plumbing to do in the rest rooms, the placing of the seats and the house will be ready for the grand opening. The two modern projecting machines, have been installed and the management proposes to try them out this week. It is, the purpose of Messrs Shurtliffe & Dredge to open the show house next week.
