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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Broadway coming to Wasatch Front
Deseret News, 13 June 2004, page E10
Article Summary:
West Jordan city park bowery:
- used for performances by West Jordan Theater Arts
- more than 230 seats
- scenery and props had to be guarded 24 hours a day
- demolished and replaced by a new city fire station
Sugar Factory Playhouse:
- new venue for the West Jordan Theater Arts
- built in a section of the old West Jordan sugar factory
- First production: “Footloose: The Musical”
- 230 seats
- scenery and props can be locked up every night