Greece Athena High School has an award-winning arts department. When Greece Central Schools decided to build a new theater at Athena, it was conceived to be state-of-the-art from the outset. AVL Designs, Inc. was contracted to provide design for acoustics, stage rigging, theatrical lighting, audio, and video. Ceiling clouds and wall “sails” were incorporated to blend and mix the sound in the room. A shape optimized stage shell is used for choral and musical events, providing a diffuse sound field on the stage and projection of the sound into the seating area. The sound system that is comprised of state-of-the-art digital and analog mixing consoles, DSP processing, 24-track digital audio recording capability, and dozens of wireless microphones. The main speaker clusters provide true stereo mix to all seats in the house. The theatrical lighting system consists of two well-conceived house catwalks and five on-stage electrics with 384 ETC sensor advanced feature dimmers. The Emphasis control system utilizes state-of-the-art ETC WYSIWYG 3-D rendering and systems that control a myriad of lighting fixtures with remote capabilities. The stage rigging system is state-of-the-art, utilizing Vortek motorized rigging and controls. Forty-three Vortex units allow exceptional flexibility. A JR Clancy Lambda series orchestra lift with 10-foot travel and 28,000 pound capacity has been provided to allow total flexibility of stage configuration. Video projection with a 10,000 Lumen large screen projector provides theater-like quality even in this large room. The projector is housed in an acoustical enclosure in the balcony face to make it inaudible to the audience.