Robert Davis Inc. consults on the construction and renovation of theaters and other performing arts architecture.
Current work includes commercial, educational, and institutional projects.

Robert Davis Inc. is celebrating 25 Years of Gracious Handsome Theaters.

Projects Recently Opened

		Globe News Center for the Performing Arts Amarillo TX			Two River Theater Red Bank NJ
		BTI Center Raleigh NC			Bratton Theater The Chautauqua Institution Chautauqua NY
		Primary Stages 59E59 Theaters New York NY			Playwrights Horizons New York NY
		Indiana University Dept of Theatre & Drama Bloomington IN			Bailey Hall Cornell University Ithaca NY
		Arthur Zankel Music Center Skidmore College Saratoga Springs NY			Episcopal Acadamy Newtown Square PA
		Hylton Performing Arts Center George Mason University Manassas VA			William Penn Charter School Philadelphia PA

General services offered by Robert Davis Inc. include:

• Site evaluation.
• Programming.
• Budgeting.
• Assistance in all phases of facility planning.
• Preparation of contract documents for stage equipment.
• Physical feasibility studies.
• Planning sightlines.
• Planning the stage configuration.
• Planning front-of-house facilities.
• Planning backstage facilities and dressing rooms.
• Planning technical spaces such as the box office, scenic, costume, prop, and electric shops, rehearsal rooms, green rooms, loading dock, and the stage door area.

• Motorized and manual rigging.
• Stage lighting controls and instruments.
• Dance and ballet floors and other stage floor construction.
• Stage traps and elevators.
• Stage draperies and masking.
• Portable equipment.

• Constructive interaction with the design team.
• Exciting sightlines.
• Reasonable solutions.
• Consensus process.
• Keeping the audience and performers happy.
• Making sturdy gracious spaces.
• Providing artists with dependable professional tools.
• Making the building an excellent workplace.

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