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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Fall Theater Season Gets Under Way
Deseret News, 1 September 1995, page W1
Article Summary:
Dan Whitley, who previously leased the Broadway Stage (Off Broadway Theatre), is opening the Lighthouse Theatre in the former Power Plant club adjacent to Cottonwood Mall. The first production, "The Christmas Stranger," opens Thanksgiving weekend.
