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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Public Thanks
Vernal Express, 9 August 1912, page 1
Dr. Homer D. Rich, Secretary of the Uintah County Medical Society, expresses public thanks to the citizens of Vernal for their patronage toward the equipping of a modern hospital for Vernal. The proceeds from the New Uintah Theatre were $12 20, and from the Orpheus ball Wednesday night $38. Special mention is due the managers of the New Uintah Theatre and the Orpheus for their generous aid to this movement.
