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More people will need care than ever but half of over-55s haven’t thought about how they’ll pay for it, reports Lucy Alderson

Election campaigns, most people believe, tell the public about the people who are vying to become the next generation of politicians and occupy a nati...

While the sector is forging a new way forward, how to make it work is harder than it looks, writes Simon Wolfe

Sun 27 Jun 2021 05.30 EDT It is an unlikely phenomenon in the West End. Women slamming their arguments against the fourth wall of a proscenium arch theatre as if it were a wall of death. Within the past two years, Six have supplied feminism in farthingales. Now J’Ouvert, the third play in producer Sonia Friedman’s Re:Emerge season at the Pinter, roars across the stage in Lycra and feathers and sequins, turquoise and pink and scarlet, bumping and grinding. It is greeted, even by a socially distanced, quelled-by-Covid-regs audience, with whoops and a stirring among the stalls: in ot...

Happy Days at Riverside Studios. As previously announced, acclaimed Beckett interpreter Lisa Dwan will play Winnie in Trevor Nunn's production. She'll be joined by Simon Wolfe ( Dublin Carol, War Horse, Punk Rock) as her husband Willie. In the play, Willie and Winnie are stuck in every sense of the word. Endless days and nights pass by while they struggle on, with only each other for company. Completing the creative team are designer Robert Jones ( Fiddler on the Roof, Quiz), lighting designer Tim Mitchell ( Upstart Crow, Kinky Boots), sound designer Johnny Edwards ( Moorcroft), production ma...