NOTE: This March story has been updated to include an upcoming June performance.

There’s something addictive about Wooster’s music. Clever lyrics, sweet male-female harmonies and laid-back beats combine to make you want to listen to more and more while your feet move with the rhythm.

Nothing about the sound screams studio-born, but that’s where Wooster’s lineage lies. The band, performing March 26 in The Catalyst’s Atrium, got its start at Santa Cruz’s Gadgetbox studios.

It was there that singer-songwriter Brian Gallagher recorded his first acoustic CD, a five-song gift for family and friends.

“Everyone liked it so much that I thought, ‘Wow, maybe I should really try to do a full length CD with a full band,’” said Gallagher, who works as a bartender at the Harbor Cafe. “It took me three years to get it all done, but I met the right people and made the right moves and it all happened.”

For Erik Gandolfi, directing his first professional play came down to one thing: finding the perfect cast for Jewel Theatre’s production of Doubt. The drama, March 11-20 at Santa Cruz’s Broadway Playhouse, examines what happens when an old-fashioned nun, Sister Aloysius, challenges a new-fangled priest, Father Flynn, whom she believes is inappropriately becoming close to a student in 1964 Brooklyn.

“It’s one of those greedy dramas that all actors love to do,” said Gandolfi of the play, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award. “I had to go through a lot of people, it was tough, but I ended up with exactly the right people…”