Things to do: Party with a local influencer; take in a play about the making of ‘Jaws’; tour the WOW Hall

Happy end-of-August, Lookout readers! I have a busy week for you in the arts and culture space. If you’re down, you’ll be seeing a play premiere, going on an artistic tour of the Whiteaker, buying oodles of books and getting some free ice cream in addition to a historic tour.

Let’s get into it:

‘The Shark Is Broken’ at Very Little Theatre

Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” is remembered as the first blockbuster, a buzzy theater-packing summer phenomenon that redefined what people were looking for at the movies.

But it was also, to put it kindly, a trainwreck — thanks to a frequently malfunctioning animatronic shark, the problems of filming a movie on the ocean and a festering feud between actors Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss…

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