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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Of a More or Less Personal Nature
Eastern Utah Advocate, 3 December 1908, page 5
F. J. Thomas was in Salt Lake City Monday buying roller skates for his new rink. The rink was thrown open to skaters this afternoon and tonight.
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An unusually large crowd was out to the Thanksgiving dance at the new hall of F. J. Thomas. Hereafter the dances given by the management are to be fifty cents a couple. The floor here is about the best ever.
