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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At Lyceum
Ogden Standard Examiner, 2 October 1912, page 7
Before the end of the week, the repair work on the Lyceum theater, which was gutted by fire, will have been finished and Manager Fred Hayter will continue to operate the house with a stock company. The interior has been redecorated and new scenery and furniture have been purchased.
