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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Sanpete County Theater Carries Traditional Fun
Salt Lake Tribune, 18 January 2003
Article Summary:
The Lund family, which operates the Towne theater in Ephraim, built a twin screen theater on the outskirts of town in 1999.
Truxton Lund purchased the Basin Drive-In in Vernal in 1960 and moved it to Mount Pleasant, keeping the same name.
