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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Thorley Theatre Improvements
Iron County Record, 14 January 1927, page 5
Thos. A. Thorley, proprietor of the Thorley theatre, announces that he is making some improvements to the theatre that will make for better [service] and clearer pictures, [missing word] comfort to patrons.
Mr. Thorley is installing an electric light generator, and also an entirely new ventilating system. In addition to this there will be a large and entirely new up-to-date silver screen. Additions and enlargements are to be made to the projecting machine, besides improvements in the projection room which will make for great speed and efficiency.
