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Things happening this week that have caught my eye.

• Peter Pan is a bit whimsical for my taste, but the new production by opening on Friday in Glasgow has been re-written by , which mean it's well worth taking a look. I went to see his play earlier this year at . Two things about it:
(1) it is a sequel to Macbeth;
(2) it is one of the best new plays I have ever seen.
If you missed the original Hampstead Theatre / run, there could be good news. I have heard that the National Theatre of Scotland is considering its own touring production of Dunsinane.

• Gil Scott-Heron is in conversation with the ebullient publisher tonight before embarking on a week-long tour in the UK and Ireland. backstory in the Guardian.

• Jannis Kounellis, from Friday, is the stand-out opening of the week. who continues to produce work of exceptional quality and intellect. was a highlight of that year; this show might well be a highlight of 2010.

• David Remnick is the Pulitzer-wining editor of who has written a new Barack Obama biography - that's a high-level combination. At 672 pages, it is very long; like so many books nowadays, this suggests either an indulgent trend or a marketing gimmick to hint at value-for-money. Still, most of those who have taken on the task of reading it seem to have found it largely worthwhile (see, for example, ). Picador is publishing the book in the UK in a little under three weeks' time; in the meantime, .

• Billy Bragg's opens today. An evening that is part-gig, part-play and part-installation suggests something less than coherent, but anything named after and featuring Bragg's 1980s classic A New England - made famous by - is tempting.

• After opening last year at London's , Pictures from an Exhibition gets a brief run at Sadler's Wells from Friday. It's inspired by Mussorgsky's famous piano piece, which you can hear and is the work of choreographer and director Daniel Kramer, .

• I spent too long at the site Letters of Note before before spending even longer at its sister site Letterheady, both of which do exactly what their names would suggest. Good work from the curator and congratulations on the baby.
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