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This Weekend’s Streaming Culture Guide: TV Shows, Concerts, Theater, and More

Another weekend at home doesn’t have to spell out boredom. While the weather figures out whether or not summer’s around the corner, enjoy some of the internet’s best streaming culture options this weekend with our handy guide.

Film, TV, and theater events

  • Each week, the National Theatre in London has put up one of its searing live productions of a classic or award-winning (and often both) plays. This weekend, enjoy Antony & Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as yet another one of Shakespeare’s ill-fated couples. Watch anytime on their YouTube channel until May 14.

  • Alamo Drafthouse has launched its own streaming service if you want to check out both recent releases and old classics. It may not be quite as good as having a huge, metal bowl of popcorn or those fried pickles, but you can do your best to pretend in the comfort of your home.

  • Season 2 of Netflix’s Dead To Me is available starting today. Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini lead this twisty, turny mystery about two grieving women who bond in therapy. No spoilers, but we gotta know what happens after season 1's big cliffhanger. If that’s not quite your tempo, check out Damien Chazelle’s new jazz-centered miniseries called The Eddy, with certified crush André Holland and Amandla Stenberg.

  • The Metropolitan Opera streams an opera every night of the week, but this Friday, we recommend their broadcast of Puccini’s La Bohème. Though many know Puccini’s work through its '90s reboot—a little musical you’ve maybe heard of, named RentLa Bohème is a staggering and soulful work from the Italian composer about penniless artists warmed by love.

  • Criterion Movie Club is back this Sunday night as well, with critic Sheila O’Malley and Farran Nehme hosting a viewing of The Big Knife, a 1955 noir starring Jack Palance and Ida Lupino. Tune in on Criterion Channel and chat with critics and viewers alike on Twitter starting at 8 p.m. ET.

Music events

  • On Saturday night, UNICEF will host a virtual, global special streaming for free at UNICEF Won’t Stop. The evening will feature performances and appearances from a ton of stars—Cher, Millie Bobbie Brown, you name it—as well as discussions with health experts and medical workers on the front lines of the pandemic.

  • For those in need of a dance party, Yaeji will be taking over Club Quarantine this Saturday along with friends and collaborators to celebrate her new mixtape. Details will be posted on their Instagram on Friday night; come dance your hearts out (at least until your next door neighbors complain).

  • World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and other Lincoln Center musicians will be playing on Sunday night in a weekly concert called Memorial For Us All. Viewers are welcome to submit the names of loved ones who have been lost to the pandemic and join others in a period of group mourning, respect, and music. It’s tough to find ways to share in grief and loss with one another, but this is one way to start. The concert begins at 6 p.m. ET.

Literary events

  • The Harvard Book Store hosts poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, who will be discussing her debut novel The Mountains Sing with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen. Pre-register for an intellectual Friday night talk on fiction and family writing on Harvard’s site.

  • Combine mindfulness and creativity at The Center For Fiction’s 45:15 event this Saturday afternoon. This communal writing exercise will help the unproductive and productive among us practice focused, quiet writing for 45 minutes at a time with a discussion afterwards by yoga instructor Virginia Cheng. Register here.

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