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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Can it be true?
Herald Journal, 31 January 2003
Article Summary:
After the successful showing of several art films at the Reel Time Theatre recently, Westates Theatres has announced it will rename the theater Logan Art Cinema and convert it into a full-time, first-run theater specializing in critically acclaimed, non-traditional "art" films.
