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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Grand Motor Vu Theatre to be Opened Soon-Construction Rushed
Times Independent, 8 April 1954, page 1
The Grand Motor-Vu Drive-In Theatre on the Howard Lance place, is nearing completion, and the opening date will be announced soon, reports Mr. Lance.
Work has been completed on the big screen and now the installation of the projectors and speaker system will be rushed.
