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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Dedication Set June 27 for Smith Building
Deseret News, 13 June 1993, page B1
Article Summary:
The Joseph Smith Memorial Building will be dedicated 27 June 1993 as a church office building and as a community center. Public tours are scheduled July 3, 6 and 7.