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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Whole Hotel to be Built at One Time
Ogden Standard Examiner, 18 August 1925, page 10
The new 12-story Reed hotel will not be constructed on the unit plan; the present large building will be razed and the new structure will go up on that site and the ground formerly occupied by the Utah theatre. That was the message given late Monday afternoon to the directors of the Ogden chamber of commerce by A. P. Bigelow, president of the Reed hotel company. Contractors are now figuring costs and bids may be opened within two weeks, he added.
