The dog days of summer are soon to come to an end, even if the weather doesn’t necessarily reflect that fact. Luckily, all of our best bets this week will help you beat the heat, as they are all in doors. We’ve got the return of a cut-short musical, the return of a popular horror film festival, and the return of a beloved art show. Keep reading below for these and our other picks for best bets.

Two friends turn a little laundromat into a honky tonk in Roger Bean ’s Honky Tonk Laundry , which you can catch at Stages tonight, Thursday, August 7, at 7 p.m. The jukebox musical, which first opened in March 2020 before being cut short due to the pandemic after four performances, is back at The Gordy and features more than two dozen country songs, including The Chick’s “Wide Open Space

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