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Sometimes the FTW team needs to decompress, and by that we mean fiercely argue with each other about frivolous things.

Screening this week in L.A.: Richard Shepard unveils his memories as a teenage "Film Geek," Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear," John Waters at the Academy and "Streets of Fire."

When the French composer Hector Berlioz arrived in Nice from Rome in the spring of 1831, it wasn’t music that preoccupied him, but murder. After this pit stop in the southeast of France, he planned to go on to Paris and kill his treacherous fiancee, her new husband, and finally his lovelorn self. But the beauty and the serenity of the coast had a profound effect on him, soothing his thoughts, healing his heart, and changing his mind. The dramatic cliffs around Nice also inspired him to write h...

And seven other fiction and non-fiction releases to read next.

Performances begin at Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End next month

Scoop Auckland provides news and views from Auckland, New Zealand

The power of Māori and Pasifika literature roars into theatrical life as the much anticipated and highly acclaimed UPU comes to Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival as part of the RĀ season line-up. <img src='https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2309/1a59b404971861b067c2.jpeg' ...

The wry, furious novel gives the overlooked daughter of an egotistical writer a voice

<strong>Other Lives: </strong>Teacher who was a central figure in his local cultural community, as well as a translator for many arts-based societies

Jesse Kodama and Will Lyman play the same character 70 years apart in Prayer for the French Republic, a Huntington Theatre Company production.