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132 South State Street
Salt Lake City, Utah

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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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The Promised Valley Playhouse. — Exterior Photos

Front of the Promised Valley Playhouse. — Entrance Photos

August D. Nardoni of Sero Amusement Co. stands on the stage of the Lyric Theatre in 1971, when the theater stopped showing movies. The screen is probably the same size and shape as the CinemaScope screen installed in 1953. — Interior Photos

The north side of the auditorium. — North Exterior

An advertisement announces the gala opening of the Playhouse the following Saturday night. — Advertisements

Gutting of the entrance and lobby area. — Demolition Photos