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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Theater Refurbished
Salt Lake Tribune, 28 January 1965, page B9
Refurbishing of the Murray Theater, a modernization program costing $15,000, has just been completed, according to owner A. M. Jolley. Purchased in September 1964, by Mr. Jolley, who also owns the Queen Theatre in Bountiful, the Murray Theatre, 4961 So. State St., has been completely refitted to accommodate the family trade, he said.