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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Theatre Has New Manager
Garfield County News, 31 January 1957, page 1
Sam Allen has retired as manager of the Gem Theatre in Panguitch according to Hawk Theatre Corporation, owners of the movie house, and Leonard Wilcock has been named as his successor.
Mr. Allen expresses his thanks to the support given him by the people, especially the young people.
He asks that the same generous support given to him during his three years as manager be also given to Mr. Wilcock, and pointed out that the quality depends on support given the movie house by people of the community.
