The Official Salvage Vanguard Theater Blog

Today we performed part of The Intergalactic Nemesis at a school assembly at Bryker Woods Elementary. The kids were so adorable, coming in and sitting down. From age 5 (man those kids are teeny!) to age 12 or so. We were hanging out in the teachers’ lounge, remarking on the surprising lack of ashtrays that [...]

So, today was my day to deal with contracts, marketing, program copy, and tech riders for our tour. Gee whiz, I’m completely overwhelmed. Just keeping track of who needs to get what is enough, but then I found a mistake in our contract, so I’ve had to email all of our presenters to let them [...]

So today we performed at St. David’s Episcopal Church as part of a showcase of artists on the Texas Commission on the Arts’ touring roster. This was pretty cool for a few reasons:
1. We are one of only 100 groups in Texas to be put on the TCA touring roster, and this in the first [...]

So, Sarah and Piper (my wife and daughter) are out of town this week with Sarah’s parents. Which has been a great excuse to work on boring SVT stuff, like grantwriting, which–don’t let anyone tell you otherwise–is a really dull activity after you’ve been doing it for 12 years like I have. Anyways…
Last night I [...]

Great question, Jason. What do they have in common?
Well, it’s not as obvious as it might seem at first. But people very closely affiliated with both of those projects are coming to Austin Sept. 8 to see Nemesis and possibly produce it! Steve Leber, the legendary rock band manager of Aerosmith, AC/DC, Def Leppard, and [...]