The Performing Arts Department is housed in the Kellner Performing Arts Center. Built in the 1990s, the building contains a large dance studio, spacious rooms for speaking, a "black box" studio theatre, fully-equipped scene construction and costume shops, and the showcase -- the Ruth King Theatre. A gift of novelist Stephen King in honor of his mother, the theatre is one of its kind at high schools across America. With an auditorium equipped with elevator and movable chairs, it is a twentieth-century adaptation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Its flexibility allows the department to present productions in a most original fashion and to change configurations to suit plays from various historical periods. We are proud to have this treasure on our campus.
