New Shakespeare Theatre
Cedar City, Utah
On 16 February 2012, the Utah Shakespeare Festival announced plans to build a $26.5 million Shakespeare theater on 200 West, between Center Street and College Avenue. The new 900-seat theater will feature amenities missing from the current Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre, such as public restrooms and a backstage area. A retractable roof will expand the season and allow for possible year-round usage. The playhouse will allow for additional performances, which will draw an additional 30,000 patrons to Cedar City and increase the economic impact of the Festival by an estimated $8 million annually.
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Completes Option on Utah Theatre
Ogden Standard Examiner, 9 March 1925, page 6
Indications that construction work on the new community hotel is soon to begin on the present Reed hotel site at Twenty-fifth street and Washington avenue was given today when the purchase of the site now occupied by the Utah theatre was completed by A. P. Bigelow, president of the Reed Hotel company. The theatre ground was purchased from the D. H. Peery estate and has been under option by Mr. Bigelow for some time.
