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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Development plans outlined for old Utah mill site
Anchorage Daily News, 8 September 2013
Article Summary:
@geneva development:
- 7,600 residential units
- 11 million square feet of available space total
- 20,000 jobs
- Utah Valley University purchased 100 acres for new classrooms and intramural fields, with an option to buy 125 more acres
Megaplex Theater:
- accomodates up to 3,000 people
- 100 full and part-time jobs
Geneva Steel Mill:
- along the east shore of Utah Lake
- permanently shut down in 2002
- built with federal funds during World War II
