Auditions for musical: Never Have I Ever by Adrienne Dawes and Amanda Murphy, November 9, 2013

Heckle Her Productions is thrilled to bring one act musical comedy Never Have I Ever: The Musical to Austin, hosted by Lucky Chaos and directed by Nitra Gutierrez, with musical direction by Henna Chou (Church of the Friendly Ghost).

(Chicago production still by Eric Gannett)

Auditions will be held Saturday November 9th 12:30 - 4:30 pm, with call-backs same day 5 pm - 6 pm. Seeking non-AEA actors (ages late 20s-early 30s) with musical theater or music training for ensemble cast. Please prepare 16 bars to sing a capella - you may bring an instrument to accompany yourself. Auditions will also include cold readings from the script.

Mark and Candace host a cocktail party for Mark’s rambunctious liberal arts college friends to celebrate their recent engagement. Emotions run high after a long night of the drinking game confessional "Never Have I Ever” when Mark reveals details of his sexual experiences in college.

Written by local playwright Adrienne Dawes with music and lyrics co-written by Amanda Murphy (Second City's Music Conservatory faculty), Never Have I Ever premiered in Second City Chicago's de Maat Studio Theatre in 2010.

Rehearsals begin early January; 5 performances beginning Jan 31st in Salvage Vanguard Theater's Studio space (one late night performance). Small stipend available for performers. For more information, a cast list with descriptions and to reserve an audition slot please visit: http://neverhaveiever.weebly.com

Video for upcoming: INNOCENT WHEN YOU DREAM, Zeb L. West at the Salvage Vanguard, October 25 and 26, 2013

Zeb L. West is back in Austin for two nights only after touring California and Canada with his one-man presentation as Jonah, Don Quixote and Captain Ahab. Kickstarter supporters and everyone else, here's you chance to see him in action. Two nights only!

Innocent When You Dream

by Zeb L. West

presented by Trouble Puppet Theater Co. in an intimate studio venue

October 25 and 26, 2013

Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd., 8 p.m.

Tickets available via

This play takes place inside the belly of a whale! Jonah has been swallowed and driven mad by having only two books to read - Don Quixote and Moby-Dick. This solo adventure uses puppets, masks, animated projections, physical comedy, and sea shanties to smash two literary epics into an hour of shameless antics!

It's about that rock bottom moment after a tragedy (in this case, Jonah's broken heart) when you decide how you're going to think and how you're going to treat yourself.

About the Artist: Zeb West is a writer, performer, and director currently living in Austin. He is a member of Austin's Trouble Puppet Theater Company and Brooklyn's Alphabet Arts. Recent work includes co-directing and co-writing Physical Plant Theater's play "Adam Sultan." Bottled In Bond, which Zeb co-wrote and starred in with Physical Plant Theater, won an Austin Critic's Table Award for Best Theatrical Event of 2012. 

Innocent When You Dream from Busy Mind Productions on Vimeo.

Zeb graduated from The Dell'Arte School of Physical Theater in Northern California. In the past 15 years, Zeb has worked in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and Austin and has toured across Canada, performing with masks and puppets.

""A strange and disarmingly delightful mashup using puppetry, songs, and some appropriately goofy, often ingenious props . . . the play keeps smiles on everyone's faces throughout."    The Visitorium

"West is an engaging performer with a creative, honest and cleverly metaphoric story about being in love with someone who used to love you back. West's heart is so epically broken and the wounds so fresh you can't look away. The pain inspires a ukulele song at the end, which is unquotable but brutally funny."    The StarPhoenix Saskatoon

PINKOLANDIA by Andrea Thome, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, October 17 - November 2, 2013

presents


 
by Andrea Thome
directed by Jenny Larson

Performances run October 17th through November 2nd, 2013 at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd, Austin TX 78722 -- click for map

October 17th-18th 8pm
October 20th 6pm
October 24th-26th at 8pm
October 30th 8pm
November 1st-2nd at 8pm

Tickets $10 online, and $15 at the door. All tickets are BY DONATION for STUDENTS (at the door only, or email jenny@salvagevanguard.org for group/class reservations). www.salvagevanguard.org
“I always thought it was solid, the ground I walked on.”

When two young sisters are exiled with their family from Chile to a bizarre Reagan-era Wisconsin, they are forced to retreat to an imaginary world to help uncover their family’s past.

To guard herself from the unknown, 8-year old Gaby uses imagination and innocence to create her own identity in a fantasyland of talking polar bears and melting ice caps. While her 12-year old sister Beny desperately seeks answers from her parents about who she is and what happened in their past. But she is met with icy silence and growing distance as her parents arm themselves with anger and the will to forget. When Uncle Ignacio arrives, the entire family starts to feel the ice cracking beneath their feet and the truth bubbling to the top.

Traversing through a fantasy world of glaciers, talking bears and Nazi-fighting revolutionaries, Pinkolandia shows us that when you lose your country and your past, you have to invent your own.

“I want to keep my soul.
I want to remember how to run
I want to remember that I am a bear.”

“Ambitious and often beautiful new play. With a script by Andrea Thome that’s both dreamlike and dramatic… The payoffs are abundant here; the excitements and confusions of youth are palpable” –The New York Times


COMMUNITY TALK BACK EVENTS (following the performances): October 18th– Featuring playwright Andrea Thome and Paloma Diaz, from the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. October 25th – Speakers to be announced.

CAST Gricelda Silva, Elizabeth Bigger, Jude Hickey, Martinique Duchene-Phillips, Rupert Reyes, and Robert Pierson

DESIGN TEAM Graham Reynolds- Original Score, Erin Meyer– Shadow and Video, Leilah Stewart- Set, Steven Shirey- Lights, Jessica Gilzow- Costumes

About Andrea Thome Andrea Thome's plays, theatrical translations and multimedia satires have been presented both nationally and abroad. A Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born mutt, Andrea grew up navigating the multiple landscapes and languages that inhabit her plays. She became a playwright by necessity in San Francisco, where her Red Rocket Theater Company paid their theater's rent by creating and producing a new play each month. Andrea also co-directs FULANA, a New York-based satire collective that creates cutting-edge political & cultural parodies (www.fulana.org). She has received fellowships from NYFA, New Voices/New York (Lark), the City of Oakland, INTAR, New York University (MFA Fellow), and the Women’s Project. Andrea has taught at various universities, schools and cultural centers nationwide. She helped create the Lark’s U.S.-México Playwright Exchange, which she has directed since 2006. Andrea has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009.

PINKOLANDIA is part of the Lark Play Development Center’s Launching New Plays into the Repertoire Fellowship. As part of the LNP initiative the piece premiered at INTAR in NY and will have productions at Two River Theatre, NJ and 16th Street Theater, Chicago. This initiative is made possible with leadership support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information visit www.larktheatre.org.

MADE IN THE SVT are theater works created, produced, or presented by Salvage Vanguard Theater company members.

Salvage Vanguard Theater (SVT) is a theater company and performance hub located in East Austin. SVT creates and presents transformative high-quality artistic experiences that foster experimentation and conversation.

Visit www.salvagevanguard.org or contact Jenny Larson for more information: 512-474-7886 or jenny@salvagevanguard.org

Salvage Vanguard Theater is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing an investment in the Arts is an investment in Austin’s future.

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WHAT'S GOING ON? (from Brecht's Good Person of Szechuan), Generic Ensemble Company at the Salvage Vanguard, May 3 - 11, 2013

Generic Ensemble Company in conjunction with the Lucky Chaos Theatre Project presents

What’s Goin’ On? (Workshop)

Friday-Saturday May 3-4; 10-11, 8 pm

Salvage Vanguard Theatre (2803 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78722 - click for map).




 








 
What’s Goin’ On is a an ensemble-based, original performance reinterpreting Bertolt Brecht’s classic play, The Good Person of Szechwan, exploring binary notions of Good/Evil, Male/Female, Wealth/Poverty, Coercion/Consent and Artifice/Authenticity. Simultaneously critiquing Brecht’s treatment of gender, sexuality and orientalism in Szechwan while also drawing inspiration from it, this show examines the question: What does it mean to be virtuous in our current historical moment, when societal pressures and inequality continue to marginalize our bodies and lives?
Created from scratch by the performance ensemble, What’s Goin’ On? employs new text created by ensemble members layered with activist aesthetics, choreographed movement, indeterminate games, quotidian rituals made extraordinary, and simultaneous conflicting actions to present a dense and complex collage. Drawing material relevant to ensemble members’ daily lives, What’s Goin’ On? reflects the individual identities and personalities of each collaborator, while also reflecting The Generic Ensemble Company’s continued commitment to make the invisible visible through bold, socially relevant, body-centered theatre that showcases mostly-queer identified, mostly-people of color who are mostly women-identified.
This piece is an in-progress performance featuring: Morgan Robyn Collado, Kimberly Curette, Kirsche Dickson, Ashley Hicks, Anna McConnell, James McMaster, Julie Moore, Julián Padilla, Saray de Jesus Rosales, Wendy Vastine, Leng Wong, and kt shorb with support from Kimberly Alidio, Margaux Binder, Paige Binder, and Laura Khalil.
Tickets are sliding scale $5-10.
What’s Goin’ On? is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division.
 
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GOLD DUST - THE PLAY by Monique Daviau, Gnap! Theatre Projects at the Salvage Vanguard, March 29 and 30, 2013

presents


Gold Dust: the Play

by Monique Daviau

a staged reading on March 29 and March 30, 2013, 8 p.m.
at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd.

Order tickets via Eventbrite: http://golddustreading-efbevent.eventbrite.com/
Back when the Gnap! team was writing 69 Love Scenes, our very loose adaptation of the Magnetic Fields' album, we discovered that we playwrights all had huge musical crushes on Fleetwood Mac. We joked that our next play should be a very loose adaptation of Rumours. Well, 69 LS writer Monique Daviau went off to grad school and went and wrote that very play. Gold Dust is an extremely fictionalized view of the making of Rumours, an album unparalleled in rock history for the number of songs on it written about or for or sharply aimed at the very bandmates playing the tunes.

Gold Dust is an ambitious play about love, infidelity, competition, success and failure, the power of being in a band, and the ravages of time. Oh, and in its final form will feature a Chorus of Stevies and a full band playing original, Fleetwoodesqe music.
We want to make this play as good as we can before we mount a full production. So, we're asking you, our friends and fans and audience, to come be a part of our process. On March 29 and 30 at 8 pm at Salvage Vanguard Theater, we'll be presenting a work-in-progress staged reading of the script. Playwright Mo Daviau will be there, and after the readings we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback as we eye revisions for a true debut sometime in 2014. We'd love it if you could attend.
Featuring, as Gold Dust:
Liz Beckham
Jen Brown
Courtney Hopkin
Michael Joplin
with:
Kayla Lane Freeman
Shannon McCormick
Mark Stewart
Jericho Thorp
Brett Tribe

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GUEST BY COURTESY by Jenny Larson and Hannah Kenah, April 18 - 20, 2013

 
[Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map]

and the Fusebox Festival present

Guest by Courtesy

created by Hannah Kenah and Jenny Larson, written by Hannah Kenah
performed by Jason Hays, Hannah Kenah, and Jenny Larson, with an original score by Graham Reynolds

Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd.
April 18 - 20 at 3 p.m.

Click to purchase tickets via the Fusebox Festival


Click for Austin Live Theatre review, November 8, 2011



Come ye. Come ye and observe this sorry entry into that hopeful realm of female comedy.
In the deeply pro-feminist setting of a masonic hallway, Hannah Kenah and Jenny Larson stage a two-women, one-man, two-arms, one couch, imaginary props, terrible miming, genre-bending, era-bending, woman-bashing, man-worshipping show that plumbs the depths of desperation and duration.

 
Guest by Courtesy pretends to answer the question, what the fuck should a girl do with all her spare time, and decisively proves that women are not sane. Two cousins – one poor and single, one rich and married – wage their bizarre relationship over the course of a failing afternoon tea. The work was developed by Jenny Larson, artistic director of Salvage Vanguard Theater, and Hannah Kenah, company member, performer and writer for the Rude Mechs, and scored by Graham Reynolds, Austin’s best-loved composer of all things brilliant.
Come and see them not know what kind of show they are making. A dance show? A clown show? A play? Discover how much you can tolerate. Test the limits of your patience for women floundering.
“Larson and Kenah, with perfect comic timing and tempo, keep us laughing for a good solid hour” – Austin Chronicle
Special thanks to our guest directors Will Davis and Kathy Catmull, and the extraordinary understudy, stage manager, and jack of all trades Jay Byrd.

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Salvage Vanguard Seeks Mixed-Race Male Actor for Summer 2013 Production

Posted by the SVT, February 11:

Facebook - Know of any Austin-area actors 30s, mixed-race (character passes as White)? Putting together a workshop of Adrienne Dawes play Am I White this summer and we need our leading man Wesley. Please message us if you have ideas or if you are interested in auditioning.


 Click to go to the SVT Facebook page. -- Click to go to SVT website -- Click to contact SVT artistic director Jenny Larson.

DEX & ABBY by Allan Baker, staged readings at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, March 11 and 16, 2013

Abby Productions

presents staged readings of

Dex & Abby

by Allan Baker

directed by Stacey Glazer


and featuring Matt Burnett,Tom Byrne, David Henne, Jenny Lavery and Kelly Matthews

Monday, March 11 and Saturday, March 16, 7:30 p.m.
Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. -- click for map

supported by a grant from Scriptworks

Though Sean and Jim are enjoying the beginning of a relationship and their new home together, their dogs, Abby and Dex, are not. Abby, Sean's young dog must learn to deal with Dex, who has been Jim's companion and protector for thirteen years.

Over a period of two years we watch the development of these two relationships and see how the dogs both resolve their conflicts and aid Sean and Jim in the resolution of theirs. Fortunately, all four characters are able to communicate in lovely and very unexpected ways. A funny, sweet and very moving tribute to the importance of the companions with whom we share our lives.

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Upcoming: Peter Pan the musical, Austin Children's Theatre at the Salvage Vanguard, December 14 - 16

 

 

 

Peter Pan – The Musical

December 14 - 16

Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2:30 and 7:30, Sunday at 2:30

at The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Rd., Austin, TX 78723

Tickets $10 general admission, $15 priority (click to purchase on-line)

Austin Children’s Theater invites you to take a journey to Neverland this winter! Join Wendy, John, and Michael on a grand adventure, as they fly with Peter, meet the lost boys, battle pirates, and defeat Captain Hook. A classic tale told with fun pop melodies, Peter Pan The Musical is sure to have the whole family singing, dancing, and believing in fairies!

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Video Promo: The Collector, Animal Cracker Conspiracy at the Salvage Vanguard, November 23 - 25

Trouble Puppet welcomes guest company Animal Cracker Conspiracy and

The Collector

Nov. 23-25

Austin Premiere! 3 Nights Only!

at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, in the second stage.

Three shows only! Tickets are $15 ($12 for students/seniors, $10 for groups of 5+).
Friday, Nov. 23, 8 pm; Saturday, Nov. 24: 8 pm; Sunday, Nov. 25: 2 pm

www.thecollectorshow.info

San Diego–based Animal Cracker Conspiracy Puppet Company, special guests of Trouble Puppet Theater Co., presents The Collector, a genre-stretching, surreal, multimedia tale about a lowly debt collector who travels through the urban landscape, undergoing a radical transformation of spirit.

Arts reporter Beth Accomando of KPBS San Diego goes behind the scenes with Animal Cracker Conspiracy for their puppet theater production of The Collector: (4 min.)

Upcoming: Salon Vanguard party fundraiser at the Eponymous Garden, November 13

Salon Vanguard
A benefit soiree

Tuesday, November 13th 2012
7pm- 10pm
At the Eponymous Garden, 1202 Garden St. Austin, Texas (click for map)
 


Tickets $60 for 2/ $45 for 1
available on-line via



 

Come enjoy an evening of intimate performances by Graham Reynolds of the Golden Hornet Project, world-class violinist Roberto Paolo Riggio, and author Spike Gillespie. As the jubilee begins, Church of the Friendly Ghost will serenade us with a string trio. And in the spirit of a Marie Antoinette rager, powdered wigs and all, our hosts will lead us in titillating parlor games and other coiffured shenanigans. Hank Cathy of Digestible Feats has created our decadent specialty cocktail, and our cracker jack team from last year will provide the array of delicious eats!

Admission includes drinks, eats, entertainment and one raffle ticket!

"SVT's fundraiser (Salon Vanguard) was just crowded enough to feel convivial, with the catered feast and the live jazz and the old-timey pop tunes and the sidecar-making bartenders and the parlor games and the guest performers perfectly arranged within the elegant architecture and landscaping of Eponymous Garden.”
-Austin Chronicle 2010 “Top 10 Favorite Arts-Related, Ah, Things From the Past 12 Months”

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Upcoming: Dream Cabinet, Salvage Vanguard at the Eponymous Garden, October 20 - 31

DREAM CABINET
by Sterling Price-McKinney
directed by Jenny Larson


Salvage Vanguard Theatre Company at the Eponymous Garden, 1204 Garden Street
October 20 - 31 (exact dates and times not announced as of 9/09)
A dreamscape on loop, a reoccurring nightmare, a fevered dream. Dream Cabinet rehearsals have begun... a "Made in the SVT" production, running Oct 20th- 31st at the Eponymous Garden. "There is only this and nothing more.”
 

Click to read feature by Georgia Young at www.austin.culturemap.com, May 3, 2012

The Eponymous Garden, Austin, TX

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Upcoming Fundraiser: 2012 Party on the Vanguard , May 8

presents

PARTY ON THE VANGUARD

SVT’s Annual Fundraising Extravaganza!

May 8th, 7- 11pm
@ Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 E Manor Rd (click for map)
Tickets $10 in advance, $15 at the door
www.Salvagevanguard.org

Join us for a night of merry making, prize winning, and culture absorbing with SVT’s annual fundraising event, Party on the Vanguard. Each admission includes a raffle ticket to the best prizes around, as much bathtub gin you can guzzle down, a cake walk (but with booze!) and hilarious party games with Gnap! Theater Projects. Enjoy a variety of entertainment brought to you by Trouble Puppet Theater, Spank Dance and music curated by Church of the Friendly Ghost featuring Melusina and DJ Boya.

Hosted by the inimitable Michael Joplin and Mical Trejo, Party on the Vanguard is attended by more than 200 of Austin's finest artists and art patrons every year. So we invite you to put on your party shoes and enjoy a night of fun, performance, games and a chance to make a contribution to Salvage Vanguard Theater, home to Austins burgeoning arts scene.

Ongoing: The Cherry Bowl, Ben Schave's commedia dell'arte version of The Cherry Orchard, February 24 - March 10

presents

The Cherry Bowl

by Ben Schave

February 24 - March 10, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.

Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. (click for map)

$10 general admission, $5 high school and college students

tickets available on-line (with surcharge) at Gnap! Theatre Projects

A commedia-inspired adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard by one of Austin’s preeminent physical comedians, Ben Schave. In this near dialogue-free production, Chekhov’s masterpiece is distilled down to its gestural essence.

Featuring: Jessica Arjet, Emily Breedlove, Kristin Firth, Bob Galligan, Brad Hawkins, Niki Jacobsen, Brady James, Michael Jastroch, Frank Nappi, Joel Osborne, Jayme Ramsay, Aaron Walther

Upcoming: Who Is Karen Finley by Kelli Bland, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 4

Via an SVT Tweet:

Who Is Karen Finley?

a performance art piece

by Kelli Bland

January 4, 8 p.m.

Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd. (click for map)

WHO IS KAREN FINLEY? is a cutting-edge exploration of sensuality, domination and humiliation in the 21st century. The P.A.P., or Performance Art Piece, is a first offering by local neo-feminist Ivy, who, with the aid of her art slave, Daud, will shock, titillate, nauseate the spectator with post-postmodern polytheatrical CLITartistry.

Tito's Vodka! Wunder Pilz Kombucha!
All proceeds will go towards the making of the art film THE QUIET GIRL'S GUIDE TO VIOLENCE!

If you don't show, you are a fucking loser.

Upcoming: Holier Than Thou by Bastion Carboni, FronteraFest at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, January 26 - February 4

Found on-line:

presents

Holier Than Thou

by Bastion Carboni (60 minutes)

directed by Bethany Perkins

with Joshua Baker, Melanie Conrad, Bethany Perkins, Kacy Todd and Bastion Carboni.

Jan 26th, 31st at 9:00pm; Jan 28th at 5:30pm; Feb 4th at 8:15pm

at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Rd (click for map)

$10 -- Click here to purchase tickets for Holier Than Thou

Comprised of candid interviews taken after the expiration of a non-disclosure agreement, Holier Than Thou centers around a reality TV show wherein the contestants compete to possess the powers of Jesus for a week. A dark comedy about what we want and why we need it.

FronteraFest Announces Long Fringe Productions for January 24 - February 5

UPDATE: Lisa Scheps and Stuart Moulton interview organizers Ken Webster and Christi Moore, January 11

The FronteraFest Long Fringe schedule was published by the Hyde Park Theatre on December 20. FronteraFest Long Fringe shows are 45 to 90 minutes long and staged at the Blue Theatre and Salvage Vanguard Theatre. Click where indicated to purchase tickets

Precious Little Talent
by Ella Hickson (Capital T Theatre) (90 minutes) at the Blue Theatre, 916 Springdale
Precious Little Talent is a refreshing story of love's triumph over loss and what it means to arrive at adulthood during a time when the rules seem to be shifting and the ground is unsteady. Capital T is proud to present the US Premiere of the latest breakout hit from London penned by Britain's hottest young playwright, Ella Hickson, starring Joe Penrod, Joey Banks, and Melissa Drew, directed by Scott Tipton.
Jan 25th, Feb 3rd at 7:00pm; Jan 27th at 9:15pm; Jan 29th at 2:00pm
Click here to purchase tickets for Precious Little Talent


Akimbo Bubble Scuttle
by Topping Haggerty (Da Foundry) (60 minutes) at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Road.
Akimbo Bubble Scuttle Ruckus is the dark adorable sketch comedy extravaganza you've been waiting for from DA Foundry. Do all puppets have a violent nature? What do rocks feel? Why are suicidal zombies so easy to empathize with? How did you really learn about sex? And why, oh, why is Evil so verbally incontinent? Come experience this hilariously touching, disturbing, raucous display of comedy-licious-ness.
Jan 29th at 6:45pm; Jan 31st at 7:00pm; Feb 4th at 1:00pm; Feb 5th at 3:00pm
Click here to purchase tickets for Akimbo Bubble Scuttle


The Alien Baby Play
written by Nicholas Walker Herbert, directed by Gary Jaffe
(Tutto Theatre) (90 minutes) at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre, 2803 Manor Road.
Bethany is 15 months pregnant with an alien baby, and she's invited you to the birth! Kathleen Fletcher returns to Austin for the world premiere of Nicholas Walker Herbert's The Alien Baby Play, an interactive theatrical experience from Tutto Theatre Company which will leave you clutching your womb with joy and terror. www.TuttoTheatre.org
Jan 24th at 7:00pm; Jan 28th at 1:00pm; Jan 29th at 8:45pm; Feb 5th at 7:15pm
Click here to purchase tickets for The Alien Baby Play

Click to go to AustinLiveTheatre.com to view full list of 17 productions for the FronteraFest Long Fringe . . . .

Upcoming: Salon Vanguard at the Eponymous Garden, November 8

Received directly from Jenny Larson:

Salon Vanguard

A benefit soiree

Tuesday, November 8 , 7 pm- 10 pm
at the Eponymous Garden.
1202 Garden St. Austin, Texas.(click for map)

Tickets $60 for 2/ $40 for 1
For reservations email jenny@salvagevanguard.org

Come and enjoy intimate parlor room performances by Graham Reynolds of the Golden Hornet Project, Lizz Cass of the Austin Lyric Opera, and author Carrie Fountain, winner of the National Poetry Series and author of Burn Lake. With the East Side Dandies, featuring Reese Gray from the Squirrel Nut Zippers, serenading us into the evening. Our favorite hosts Westen Borgeshi of the White Ghost Shivers and SVT company member Adriene Mishler will lead us through parlor games and other such shenanigans, and the same cracker jack team as last year will provide delicious eats and drinks!
(Whiskey Sage? …yummmm)

Cost of admission includes eats, drinks, entertainment and one raffle ticket! The raffle includes a variety of goodies, from quirky Austin treasures to a new IPad.

"SVT's fundraiser (Salon Vanguard) was just crowded enough to feel convivial, with the catered feast and the live jazz and the old-timey pop tunes and the sidecar-making bartenders and the parlor games and the guest performers perfectly arranged within the elegant architecture and landscaping of Eponymous Garden.” -Austin Chronicle 2010 “Top 10 Favorite Arts-Related, Ah, Things From the Past 12 Months”

Upcoming: Rock and Roll Is Dead -- Literally, True Hollywood Tales by Glamour Girl Productions at the Blue Theatre, October 31

Received directly:

Weird, True Hollywood Tales!
Directed and Hosted by Lashonda Lester
at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd.
October 31, 8pm
General Admission $5.00
Featuring: Katie Pengra, Chad Warren, Andrew Tompkins, Amber Bixby,
Mike Graupmann, Ralph Hardesty, Isaac Harigle and Kat Ramzinski.

Video trailer (35 seconds)

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69 Love Songs, Gnap! Theatre Projects at Salvage Vanguard Theatre, July 8 - 23

by Brian Paul Scipione

I Don’t Want to Get Over Love Songs

If you scour the liner notes of 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields you will find this admission by writer Stephen Merritt: “I like over-the-top sentimentality if there’s a justification for it.” While this thought is no way to sum up the majesty of his much-beloved indie/emo/pop/retro/folk rock masterpiece album, it is a good way to introduce it.

The second necessary detail is that Merritt did not write 69 Love Songs as a collection of songs about love, but rather as a collection of songs about love songs: almost but not quite a dubious distinction. Also from the liner notes: “I had been thinking it would be good to get into the world of musicals, and probably easier to get into it through a revue of songs along the lines of An Evening with Tom Leher or Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, two revues that don’t need any narrative to be wildly entertaining. Well, I write pretty good love songs. Nobody else is writing love songs.”

So, 69 Love Songs is one part severely sentimental and one part non-narrative musical revue but what would be the final ingredient in this odd, unique and delightful night of entertainment? From the Gnap Theatre website, “Gnap! Theater Projects presents and produces theatrical events that are both deliberately experimental and unashamedly populist.” That’s right -- an improv-based theater group with a love for all things widely loved. The piece 69 Love Scenes is a play in 69 parts inspired and guided by the themes, titles, characters, and moods of 69 Love Songs.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .