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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Globe Theatre Remodeled
Ogden Standard Examiner, 19 December 1914, page 7
Next Wednesday afternoon the Globe theatre will be opened to the public as a roller skating rink. This announcement was made yesterday by a member of the Alhambra Theatrical company, who stated that the building was to be entirely remodeled for the new venture. The floor is to be one of the finest in the west and a large rest room, gentleman's rest room and check room is to be added.
