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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Dreamland Theater
Ogden Standard Examiner, 10 March 1908, page 7
The management, Charles and George Driskell, are to be congratulated on their newly arranged and newly remodeled theater. It is really a big improvement to the stores on the east side of Washington avenue, and will do much in drawing the people over to that side, not only for the pleasure they can receive, but for business. With such permanent and elegant improvements, the Dreamland should be a place to spend hours of real pleasure.