Lehi City Arts Center
Lehi, Utah
After the John Hutchings Museum of Natural History moved to the Memorial Building in 1996, the former museum was renovated and reopened as the Lehi City Arts Center. Limited by its 100-seat auditorium with a combined green and dressing room, the Lehi Arts Council announced plans in 1998 for a new performing arts complex with a 1,800 seat Broadway theater, a smaller 248-seat theater, and a theater-in-the-round. Pledges were secured for $6 million of the necessary $15 million, but fund-raising grew difficult due to competition from other Utah County arts initiatives and the 2002 Winter Olympics Games. In 2003, Lehi City unveiled a $150,000 renovation of the existing arts center.
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Utah Daily Chronicle, 21 March 1972, page 12
After many a season dies the swan, the poet says, but the Seagull Theater in Salt Lake City lasted just one season.
Richard K. Folsom, who founded the theater last September, said he has been forced to close down after producing 10 plays ranging from romantic comedy to serious drama.
He said actors and others involved in the effort plan to reorganize as a nonprofit repertory theater.
