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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Moral pollution kept at bay
Deseret News, 15 September 1999, page A12
We recently saw the movie "The Winslow Boy" at the Avalon Theater. We thoroughly enjoyed the movie. We found the story compelling and the acting believable. We also observed nothing objectionable in the movie, which can be said about very few movies today.
We wish to thank the Avalon Theater for providing movies that are entertaining without the moral pollution that infests most of the entertainment media.
Floyd and Doreen Larson
Sandy
