Here they are, nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead. It’s the merry-month-of-May B9:
- It’s the curtain-call production for Jewel Theatre at the Colligan Theater, and it’s a warm embrace of an American original: “Always … Patsy Cline.”
- Big weekend in Watsonville for lowrider fans — movie screening Saturday and big car show on Sunday.
- The Santa Cruz Symphony ends its 2023-24 program season boldly with J.S. Bach’s august masterpiece “Mass in B Minor,” in Santa Cruz and Watsonville.
- Last weekend to check out the moving family drama (with deep roots in Santa Cruz County history) “White Sky, Falling Dragon.”
- It’s fun with fungi this weekend at the Santa Cruz Mushroom Festival at Roaring Camp, with food, beer, live music, art and fungi walks.
- Is there anyone even close to David Sedaris as the greatest literary humorist in America? Aren’t we lucky that he likes visiting Santa Cruz?
- 1970s yacht rock doesn’t get much yacht-ier than the Bay Area band Pablo Cruise who, for at least one day next week, will become Pablo Cruz.
- Ex-SNLer Colin Quinn has turned stand-up comedy into a kind of themed theater piece to figure how the mystifying puzzle that is America. He drops in at the Rio.
- Santa Cruz mystery novelist Leslie Karst makes her fans happy with the release of her new novel, “Molten Death,” with a live conversation at Bookshop.