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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Eastern Utah Advocate, 23 November 1911, page 5
The Liberty theater is showing to good crowds nightly with a change of program on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The Liberty is a good place to spend an evening. All the comforts of home.
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Miller & Green this week moved to Rogers building on Main street, formerly occupied by the Isis theater. They will run a pool and billiard parlor, with soft drinks, cigars and a short order lunch counter. H. S. Doxey is in charge of the lunch counter.