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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County Drops Theater Lease
Ogden Standard Examiner, 27 December 1977, page A12
The County Commission has terminated the lease of the Orpheum Corporation for the movie theater in the county-owned Ben Lomond Hotel complex.
In exchange for the lease termination, the corporation has agreed to give the county the theater's internal fixtures -- projection equipment, chairs, lights and other items.
