http://weekendsantacruz.com Hey, What Are You Doing This Weekend? (on indefinite hiatus) Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:23:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/06/07/the-week-june-7-10/ http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/06/04/the-weekend-june-4-6-2010/ http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/06/04/the-weekend-may-28-30-2010/ * PUBLISHER/EDITOR'S NOTE: Weekend Santa Cruz will be on hiatus for the foreseeable future. It will not be updated for some time to come. Thank you to each of the site's supporters. Memorial Day marks the start of the summer season. The weather warms, the beach beckons and soon, the town empties of students and fills with tourists attracted by the area's natural beauty and quirky charms. There are an infinite number of ways to celebrate the summer in Santa Cruz, from picnics by the lighthouse to riding the Beach Boardwalk roller coaster. As this is a finite space, we've pared the list to six....
PHOTO: Joshua Lau and Crystina Robinette are featured dancers in "Swing!" opening June 25 at Cabrillo Stage. Photo by Jana Marcus.]]> http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/05/28/6-ways-to-celebrate-summer-in-santa-cruz/ 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."]]> http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/03/22/studio-to-stage-wooster-slinks-into-the-cat/ 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..."]]> http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/03/10/director-doesnt-doubt-his-cast/ He's a bisexual who likes Kierkegaard, Mahler, Joan Didion and writing personal ads. She's a freelance writer who keeps answering the ads he writes, even though he drives her nutty. Together, they're Beyond Therapy. Gerry Gerringer directs the Christopher Durang comedy, on stage at Actors' Theatre through March 21. The show explores relationships between lovers, friends and therapists. In the spirit of the therapist's couch, Gerringer was kind enough to answer a few questions for Weekend Santa Cruz.... ]]> http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/03/01/5-questions-with-gerry-gerringer-director-of-beyond-therapy-at-actors-theatre/ It was a collection of empty whiskey bottles that led to the creation of the physical theater piece You Don't Know Jack, appearing at The 418 Project. No, not because members of The Carpetbag Brigade were drinking while putting together this fractured fairy tale combining "Jack in the Beanstalk" with an alcoholic ghost, post-traumatic stress disorder and a dysfunctional family.
During an improv exercise, five Carpetbag Brigaders went out in the New Mexico sun looking for objects that inspire. The year was 2007 and the Bay Area group was doing a retreat with Wise Fool, a New Mexico arts organization with roots in puppetry. When all five members came back with empty whiskey bottles, inspiration struck Carpetbag Brigade founder and artistic director Jay Ruby.... (Photo by Jesse Olsen)]]> http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/02/25/a-very-different-jack/ Robert Frost once said that "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Students from Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School will be bringing their thoughts to life with emotion the first week in March, when they perform as part of Willing Suspension Armchair Theatre.
The students have been working on the show with poet Gary Young, who was recently named the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County. A Pushcart Prize-winning poet, Young teaches at UC Santa Cruz. In 2009, he received the Shelley Memorial Award. Though busy teaching, writing and running Greenhouse Review Press, Young agreed to answer five questions for Weekend Santa Cruz....]]> http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/02/23/5-questions-with-gary-young-poet-laureate-of-santa-cruz-county/ http://weekendsantacruz.com/2010/02/15/the-weekend-past-february-12-14-2010/