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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Arts centers: one, 2 or 23?
Deseret News, 10 April 2000, page B1
Article Summary:
County Commissioner Gary Herbert says it's not realistic to have a cultural arts facility in every city in Utah county and is organizing a county arts council to consider where it should be built. Ray Carter, who has been raising funds for an arts center in Lehi, has seen a slowdown in fund raising following Herbert's actions, but still expected to break ground in June.
