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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Grove schedules 'extreme theatre' experience
Deseret News, 8 February 2004
Article Summary:
The Grove Theatre is scheduling a 24-hour "extreme theatre" event for 6 March 2004. Five directors, five playwrights, and a group of actors will have 24 hours to create and produce five short plays. February 21 is the deadline for applications from those interested in being involved with the project.
