DAVIDSON COMMUNITY PLAYERS
Santa’s Elves Invade the Armour Street Theater—in a Prelude to the Christmas Season
NEWS The story of Santa’s comedic elf is an entertaining, popular, pre-Christmas drama. The Davidson Community Players (DCP) Connie Company’s musical version about the junior elf seeking identity is a brave undertaking considering the amazing number of continual set...
An Enchanting Boos & Brews Moved to the Davidson Community Players’ Armour Street Theatre
NEWS Boo! The Armour Street Theatre became a haunted house last weekend. Eerie skeletons floated over the entryway of Davidson Community Players (DCP) artistic home. There, brave theatrical patrons willing to be frightened—more likely, entertained—sidestepped...
Davidson Community Players and Cain Center Announce Inaugural Collaboration
NEWS Frozen Jr. will kick off two-show 2024 partnership Davidson Community Players (DCP), one of Charlotte’s top theatre producing organizations, will mount two of its 2024 shows at Cain Center for the Arts in Cornelius. This highly anticipated announcement pairs...
The Davidson Community Players Production of “Yankee Tavern” Abounds with Conspiracy Theories and Thrills
NEWS Theories about the conspiracy to assassinate JFK, the moon landing, and many other world events, including 9/11, are tossed around. Realistic, perhaps, or even outlandish! I never knew there were so many disparate suppositions about what happened on September...
A British farce, “The Explorers Club,” Produced by Davidson Community Players, Takes Center Stage at the Duke Performance Hall
NEWS An eclectic coterie of English adventurers and their eccentric antics are on display in Nell Benjamin’s hilarious farce, The Explorers Club, the Davidson Community Players summer comedy at the Duke Family Performance Hall. At times, my ‘dahlings,’ the...
Davidson Community Players Presents The Explorers Club
NEWS By Nell Benjamin London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the...
Meet Steve Kaliski: Davidson Community Players’ New Executive Director
NEWS After I graduated from Davidson College in 2007, I decided to stick around town for the summer to act in a ridiculous farce called Beau Jest. Perhaps some of you remember this Davidson Community Players comedy; it abounded with mistaken identities, Passover...
The Davidson Community Players are Calling all Playwrights!
NEWS Submissions are now open for the 7th Annual Boos and Brews Ten-Minute Play Festival which will be held at the DCP Actor’s Lab Black box theatre in Cornelius on OCTOBER 26, 27, and 28. Plays will be accepted from NC, SC, VA, TN, and GA. Playwrights of all levels...
Davidson Community Players’ Executive Director Matt Merrell Exits the Stage
NEWS Davidson, NC — June 27, 2023 — After twelve years of inspiring leadership and profound commitment, Matt Merrell, Davidson Community Players’ (DCP) Executive Director, will be retiring from DCP at the end of the month. Since taking the helm in 2011, Matt has...
Davidson Community Players’ Production of “Mary Poppins” Pops and Flies!
NEWS Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious! That’s what I’d call Mary Poppins, the Davidson Community Players summer musical that opened Thursday evening at the Duke Family Performance Hall on the Davidson College campus. The show is superb! Mary Poppins has...
Davidson Community Players
Davidson Community Players is a non-profit organization established to produce theatre that entertains, enriches, and encourages community participation in the dramatic arts. The Connie Company is DCP’s theatre for youth division. Both organizations have a long- standing record of providing creative, authentic, and affordable opportunities for both children and adults.