To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow

Macbeth, Act V, Scene V

It seemed appropriate to evoke Shakespeare for this sad news: Barbara Gaddie Adams, who with her husband Fred Adams founded the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, died Wednesday at the age of 76.

Barbara Adams was dean of women at Southern Utah State College (now Southern Utah University) in 1961, when she and her husband conceived the idea of a theater festival in Cedar City. That festival has now grown into a national treasure, and a Tony winner for regional theater.

"She worked hand-in-hand with Fred in the dreaming and the working to make it happen in those early years," R. Scott Phillips, the festival's executive director, told the Tribune's Roxana Orellana. "She was the first person who really provided the thread for all of the music at the festival."

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