More Honors for ZACH Theatre!

Today's issue of The Austin Chronicle has revealed this year's Best Of Austin for readers and critics. Dave Steakley and ZACH won recognition!

READERS: Best Theatre Director: TIE: Jason Neulander, Dave Steakley

Zach Scott's Dave Steakley has an especially deft hand with musicals,
but this year he showed his boldness by daring to stage the all-
conquering behemoth that is Disney's High School Musical and by
presenting two big non-musicals: Take Me Out and Noel Coward's Present
Laughter. Meanwhile, Salvage Vanguard Theater's Jason Neulander
started the year by promising it would be the biggest ever for his
nurturing home for up-and-coming playwrights and did it in big style
with an ongoing national tour of The Intergalactic Nemesis and by
finally finding a home for his own itinerant troupe- a permanent
place on Manor Road. Both prove bigger doesn't mean blander.
Jason Neulander: Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886;
Dave Steakley: Zachary Scott Theatre Center, 1510 Toomey, 476-0541
www.salvagevanguard.org; www.zachscott.com
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READERS: Best Theatre Performance Space: Zachary Scott Theatre Center

Zach Scott is well-deserving of an award for its performance spaces.
With the original Kleberg stage; the smaller, newer Whisenhunt stage;
and the soon-to-be-built 500-seat Kuykendall stage, Zach will have no
trouble retaining the honor. With extraordinary set designer Michael
Raiford usually at the helm, the simple spaces are transformed into a
myriad of locales from churches to nightclubs, from city parks to
lake fronts, from Jerusalem to New York – all right here in Austin.
1510 Toomey, 476-0541; 1421 W. Riverside, 476-0594 www.zachscott.com
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