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 Layton theaters take moviegoing to the next level
Deseret News, 4 June 1997, page B9
Article Summary:
Tinseltown USA opened just before Memorial Day in 1997 with 7 screens
and about 1600 seats. Features include "highback rocker seats, four-day
advance ticket sales, digital sound, a video arcade room, four large
concession areas and six box office stations." The largest auditoriums
seat 425, the medium size 260, and the smallest 135.
