The Official Salvage Vanguard Theater Blog

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m pretty terrible with a camera. Which is why I never use one. Today is the day I wish I did. Take a look at those pictures in the post below and now imagine that walls are up separating the gallery from the 50-seat studio theater from the 100-seat black box from the scene shop from the public restrooms from the dressing rooms, etc. Believe it or not, the space actually looks bigger with all those walls up. I seriously can’t wait for the opening next Thursday so that lots of people can see this amazing facility. Lee Eddy has been working her ass off to put together the opening party. Eastside Cafe is catering. There’s booze from somewhere (I can’t remember where but they rock).

Huge shout-outs to Andrew Clements and Craig Nasso, our architects; Ed Diaz, our construction guru; Connor Hopkins, our construction foreman; all our incredible subs (our electricians got their supplier to donate most of the electrical stuff); and most of all, the incredible Etta Sanders, who, 7 months pregnant, has been managing the entire project and has done a whiz-bang job of it!

In other news, Mud rehearsals are going very well. This is one hell of a cast. We’re also completely rewriting The Intergalactic Nemesis and I couldn’t be happier with the new material. That show goes to NYC for two weeks in July and we’re performing it twice at the new space on June 30 at 2 PM and 8 PM for FREE!

But that’s not all: when the new space opens, there will be music every Tuesday night, films every Wednesday night, late-night shows every Friday and Saturday, play readings every Sunday night and the gallery opens with a show on June 22. Plus, we’re reading Dan Dietz’s newest play at 4 PM on the 23rd of June. The phenomenal Shannon McCormick is coordinating all our 2nd-stage events and Melissa Ladd and Jen Beck are curating the gallery.

And, lest I forget the hard work of Jenny Larson, SVT Reads! rolls along this weekend with a reading of Jason Grote’s Moloch and other Demons Saturday at 5 PM at the Zach Scott Arena Stage.

Whew!