George Foreman, director of the Norton Center for the Arts, stands in the center of seatless Newlin Hall. The new seating will be more curved and comfortable for patrons. The crane, on stage, is for painters brightening up the theater interior. Photos by Rich Copley | LexGo.com.

The lobby of the Norton Center is something of a staging area for construction. The wall to the women's rest room was built out to double the number of facilities.

Without ceiling tiles in place, you can see the top of the old lobby wall to the women's rest room that now fall's inside the expanded ladies facilities in the Norton Center for the Arts.

Charlie Snowden (standing) and Tim Abbott of Cincinnati-based Midwest Accessibilty work on the new elevator in the Norton Center that will help the theater comply with requirements in the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Wes Chaffin, Karen Sherwood, Angie Young, Dana Bart and Deborah Hoskins have a laugh as the put together season brochures for the Norton Center for the Arts 2009-10 season.

The nearly completed Weisiger Theatre offers a preview of what Newlin Hall will look like when it is done. Photo courtesy of the Norton Center for the Arts.