The Official Salvage Vanguard Theater Blog

Great question, Jason!
About six weeks ago, we brought Seth Goldstein, our general manager for the NY production; Michael Coco from New World Stages; and Jeremy Lee, all around great guy from NYC to Austin to work with the Austin team, including the cast, Derek Rosenstrauch, Tim Doyle, and a couple of veteran marketing guys Gregory [...]

So today I got the coolest email and I’m just going to paste it below. Graham and I talked about this quite a bit last year when we were writing the opera Genghis Khan. Check this out…
Mr. Neulander
My name is Dawadash and I am the Second Secretary of the Embassy of Mongolia in Washington DC. [...]

Okay, so in the past three weeks we held the Salvage Vanguard Labor Party, raising more than $20,000 (thank you to everyone who came!); opened Thrush, a play with songs (and got a kick-ass review in The Austinist); fundraised a whole bunch for the capital campaign for our new home; launched new segments of the [...]

Thanks to an unbelievable turnout by an incredible audience, the Hogg show was something else! Nearly 1000 people showed up to cheer and applaud, to say “one” one too many times, to laugh at all the right moments, and to send us on to our national tour.
The cast was elated when the whole thing was [...]

So, back in December I had the honor of being asked by Ballet Austin to be Mother Ginger in the Nutcracker, joining the ranks of such local celebrities as Kirk Watson, Lance Armstrong, Robert Rodriguez, and more. How completely cool! I had finally made it!
So, my gig was a matinee for 3rd-graders, making it even [...]