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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Salt Lake Tribune, 14 November 2004
Article Summary:
Fountain Green, a community of 900, raised $700,000 to restore its ruined dance hall and theater, built in 1918 and abandoned in the 1950s.
"It's brought our city together like nothing anyone could have ever imagined." (Scott Collard, Mayor)
