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, 6 July 1911, page 5
The Isis Theater announces an entire change of program for tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday evenings with a new one also for next Monday and Tuesday. This is a clean resort for ladies and children and is well worthy the support it is receiving.