PUSD Director of Facilities Pete Palmer gave the Exedra a peek inside the new theater building this week. The new performing arts building is scheduled to open this November. As The Piedmont Highlander reported earlier this spring, government-mandated safety and accessibility upgrades along with COVID-related precautions added significantly to the cost of the building and pushed back the opening date by about a month. Palmer said in the TPH interview that PUSD is looking at a variety of funding sources — PEF, grants, and other state-funded programs — to complete the project as designed.
The second story of the theater will have an overlook to the lobby and entrance 
Site of a performing arts classroom on the second floor, which is also expected to be used for meetings and speaker events. 
Standing near the stage area, Pete Palmer explains how the light and sound system will be installed to project out to the audience 
Seating layout 
The exterior of the theater leading into the lobby