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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Joseph Smith film to debut
Deseret News, 14 November 2005
Article Summary:
"Joseph Smith, The Prophet of the Restoration":
- new film depicts Joseph Smith's life from his early youth in Vermont to his martyrdom in Illinois at age 38
- will begin showing in the Legacy Theater on 17 December 2005
- produced under the supervision of the First Presidency
- part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith's birth
