April 14-28, 2020
In-Home Entertainment Recommendations
Our Theatre & Arts editor recommmends games to play, podcasts to listen to, shows to watch, and theatre to stream while you #StayAtHome.
Buzzfeed Unsolved—Want a funny pick-me-up during this global crisis? Watch Buzzfeed Unsolved! A conspiracy theorist, Ryan Bergara, tries to convince his skeptic friend, Shane Madej, that things like ghosts are real, all while they investigate numerous unsolved crimes, disappearances, and just plain weird events. They alternate seasons between unsolved supernatural mysteries and true-crime ones. Available on YouTube.
Podcast Recommendation: King Falls AM—A new late-night radio host moves to a sleepy mountain town for work, only to find one of his listeners seemingly abducted by aliens live on air on his first night of broadcast. Available on the King Falls website, Spotify, and other platforms.
Streaming Recommendation: Derry Girls—A group of friends navigate their teenage lives during the Northern Ireland Conflict in the 1990s. Available on Netflix.
Game Recommendation: Minecraft—A classic game from our childhoods that still manages to surprise us everyday (They added bees! Bees!), Minecraft is an open-world survival game that uses blocks as landscape. Available on minecraft.net for $26.95.
Theatre Recommendation: National Theatre at Home presents Jane Eyre—Tune in from now through April 16th to the National Theatre at Home Youtube channel for the classic story of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre in a new and interesting play version.
—Cassidy MacArthur, Theater & Arts Editor