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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Fire Dept Saves Drive-in Screen
Times Independent, 29 April 1954, page 1
Wednesday of last week with the Grand Opening of the Grand Vu Drive-In Theatre just a few hours away, fire broke out in weeds and grass in the creek bottom near the Howard Lance place, and for a time threatened the new screen.
The boys of the fire department responded instantly to the call and save the big screen from damage by heat, stopping the fire only a short distance from the gigantic screen.
Needless to say, thanks were extended by the Lances and the many folks who took in the Grand Opening Wednesday evening.
