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4:48 Psychosis, Tramway, Glasgow
Sarah Kane's final play only really works if you believe that it is much more than a suicide note

The Man Who Pictured Space From His Apartment, Greenroom, Manchester
The American duo of Cupola Bobber put on an elusive but consistently engaging show of imaginative delicacy

Rank, Tricycle, London
The tension built up in the first act of this Irish import is squandered in a tale that lacks the toughness that the subject requires

Delirium, Barbican Pit, London
A potted, and occasionally potty, version of the Brothers Karamazov has a refreshing intellectual scope

Financial Times

Nunzio/La Busta, Theatre du Rond Point, Paris
Little-man-in-harsh-universe links this double bill by the Sicilian author/actor Spiro Scimone. Everything else sets these blackly comic playlets apart, writes Clare Shine

The Independent

Reviews: Othello, Lyric Hammersmith, London * Rank, Tricycle Theatre, London
A pub, a pool table but no poetry in this Othello

The Guardian

Paulette Randall, director
Talawa theatre company director on Bob Marley, Black Shack Alley, and the 24-hour rule

Private View / Protest, Orange Tree, Richmond
These plays show Vaclav Havel's skill in dissecting the disquiet created by dissidents, says Michael Billington

The Dogstone/Nasty, Brutish and Short, Traverse, Edinburgh
If new plays are a measure of the times, the National Theatre of Scotland's series of Traverse Debuts tells us these are depressing days, says Mark Fisher

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Andrew Haydon: Postdramatic theatre is no longer a closed book
Anyone interested in the avant garde should find Hans-Thies Lehmann's tome an essential and exhilarating read

Whatsonstage.com

Review: Private View & Protest
The Vaclav Havel season at the Orange Tree has been one of the year’s highlights. The third programme – and you can see the latest play and the two 1970s double-bills on three upcoming “Havel Bonanza” Saturdays – comprises Protest and Private View,...

WOS Hosts Perfect Q&A on Future of Brit Musicals
What does the future hold for the development of new British musical theatre? As part of this year’s Perfect Pitch - the showcase for homegrown musicals, which is supported for a second year by Whatsonstage.com – we’ll be hosting a lively panel...