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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'Star Wars' fans all aglow as they get to see show
Despite wait, most agree that 'Menace' is out of this world
Deseret News, 19 May 1999
Article Summary:
The Salt lake law firm of Sneel & Wilmer reserved a theater at the Tooele Cinema 6 so the firm's staff and family could see Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace on the morning of 19 May 1999. One of the firm's attorneys, Mark Morris, is part owner of the theater.
