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 [...]

As everyone reading this probably knows, I helped found Salvage Vanguard Theater thirteen years ago. And in that time almost everything we’ve created has been right here in Austin. Over the years we’ve received a little bit of national attention for our work, but sometimes it feels that on a national level we’re creating work [...]

We want to hear what you thought about our holiday extravaganza The Tenth Best Salvage Vanguard Holiday Ever.
Of course we realize it hasn’t started yet so that statement doesn’t quite make sense (it’s on December 8 & 9). So here’s what we can do in the meanwhile. There have been nine (count them, nine) Best [...]

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 [...]