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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Summer serves a full plate of theater
New dinner plays now on menu at old Alhambra
Deseret News, 27 June 1999, page E8
Article Summary:
The Little London Dinner Theatre will debut this week in the 77-year-old Alhambra Theatre with the musical revue, "Music of the Night: A Broadway Medley." The theater's "stage has been rebuilt and the seating has been reconfigured to seat 180 patrons around tables. A new concrete floor was also poured, changing the previously raked floor into tiers for tables and chairs. . . Office space at the back of the theater has been remodeled into a kitchen and bakery."
