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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Frank Spearman Takes over Young Theatre
San Juan Record, 22 May 1930, page 1
Frank Spearman, son of Dr. F. S. Spearman, has taken a lease on the Young Theatre and will treat the people to the best movies he can get.
Frank has become familiar with the operation of picture machines through helping at the shows given in town for the past year, so he is able to handle the projection end of the business very satisfactorily.
His first show will be presented Thursday of next week, and we bespeak for him a very liberal patronage.
