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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Area's Largest Movie Screen Opening
Deseret News, 5 November 1999, page E1
Article Summary:
The
Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons, entertainment and restaurant complex
built by Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller, opened on 5 November 1999
with 5,000 seats in 16 auditoriums. The 17th theater is the Super
Screen, which seats 456 and shows large-format 70mm films on a screen
60 feet high by 80 feet wide with a 15,000 watt, 6-track digital sound
system. The Super Screen is the largest in the Salt Lake area.
