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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Utah Theater to Open on Thursday
Ogden Standard Examiner, 20 October 1917, page 10
The Utah theater, after having been closed for a period of nearly two months, will open again on next Thursday. It has been completely remodeled and redecorated. New seats have been installed and a large pipe organ is now being placed by experts from the factory.
