New Shakespeare Theatre
Cedar City, Utah
On 16 February 2012, the Utah Shakespeare Festival announced plans to build a $26.5 million Shakespeare theater on 200 West, between Center Street and College Avenue. The new 900-seat theater will feature amenities missing from the current Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre, such as public restrooms and a backstage area. A retractable roof will expand the season and allow for possible year-round usage. The playhouse will allow for additional performances, which will draw an additional 30,000 patrons to Cedar City and increase the economic impact of the Festival by an estimated $8 million annually.
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Magna Showing Signs of New Life
Deseret News, 26 June 1994, page M1
Article Summary:
“Leo Ware, a 71-year-old engineer and actor, has been working for more than a decade to almost single-handedly renovate the Empress Theater on historic Main Street. Standing amid newlypoured concrete platforms inside the hollow shell of the former movie showplace, he talks about staging live theater productions in the round or showing a short movie for tourists. The theater would seat an audience of 230.”
