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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Ogden Standard Examiner, 12 March 1913, page 6
Scandinavian Play – The great Scandinavian drama, “Magdalena,” will be presented at the Rex theatre, March 13, by the Danish Glee club of Salt Lake. It will be given under the auspices of the Danish Brotherhood of Ogden. Special trains will handle the crowds expected.
Scandinavians had better secure tickets for “Magdelena” at the Rex, 25th St., for March 13. Tickets 50c, and reserved seats 75C. ADV.
