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Actors, writers and directors reflect on how far theatres have come in boosting accessibility for audiences and creatives

Gillian Pugh Sun 26 Jan 2020 12.27 EST Ron Davie, who has died aged 90, was the former director of the National Children’s Bureau, which carries…

Take a front row seat for the finals of the first Dance Westminster competition, held at the Greenhouse Centre, London. The initiative is designed to provide accessible dance to everyone, and to encourage more disabled people in the community to be active.

Birmingham Hippodrome
Sign language, speech and physical storytelling come together to interrogate history – and theatre itself

Soho theatre, London
The standup’s new show, Backward, dissects the pitfalls of fame but her joyfully undercutting humour hasn’t suffered

Janis Winehouse, who has multiple sclerosis, says PIP system is too complex

Tyrone Givans, who was profoundly deaf, killed himself in HMP Pentonville in 2018

UK campaigners condemn ‘national scandal’ affecting ill and disabled claimants

Palermo police also investigating 33 people over cases including feigned paralysis and blindness

Award-winning brewery start-up helps ex-addicts and other ‘unemployables’ change gear