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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Assault on Child Draws Fine and Jail Term
Parowan Times, 31 July 1931, page 4
Charles Niccolls, operator of the moving picture machine at the Thorley theatre in Cedar City was fined $50 and sentenced to four months in the County jail Saturday night when he confessed in Justice Leigh's court to conduct with a seven year old girl charged in the complaint as an assault.
He denied the charges during the trial until the child was placed on the witness stand and then he confessed. He is now in the County bastile here in charge of deputy sheriff L. J. Adams.
