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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Change in Management of Thorley
Iron County Record, 23 April 1930, page 1
This week a deal was consumated whereby John S. Woodbury took over the lease on the Thorley Theatre that has been held by Mr. Beers for the past year.
Mr. Woodbury is making several important changes, the main one being the addition of an entirely new movie talking machine, one of the very latest and best models.
The Thorley will be operated by Mr. Woodbury in connection with the Orpheum. It is understood that the gentleman is also placing new machines in the Orpheum.
