We operate in the John R. Cunningham Fine Arts building, which was erected in 1961 on the site of Davidson College's original chapel (built in 1838).

Our mainstage facility is the 626-seat Duke Family Performance Hall, a state-of-the-art theatre located across campus in the Knobloch Campus Center. Opened in February of 2002, and christened by the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Merchant of Venice, the DFPH is one of the premiere performance spaces in the southeast. For more technical information about the Duke Family Performance Hall, click here. Our secondary theatre is the intimate, 289-seat Lillian Brown Hodson Hall, nestled in the centre of Cunningham. Also a proscenium stage, Hodson Hall is used for the majority of productions in our Second Stage Series. The 100-seat convertible Black Box Theatre hosts a variety of performances each year, including Second Stage performances, directing projects, the Studio Theatre project, and many other student initiatives.

Our acting/directing studio is a large room in Cunningham that has the space and flooring to accommodate our varied needs, including both classes and rehearsals. We also offer a script library, indexed for student and faculty reference, and a design studio, which houses both scenic and lighting design. Cunningham also has a well-equipped costume shop and accompanying storage facility, as well as two dressing rooms and a large make-up area with traditional lighted mirrors. We have a functional scene shop equipped with typical power tools (radial arm saw, table saw, band saw, miter box, air-compressed pneumatic, cordless Makita drills, and more), and maintain an off-campus warehouse for storage.