West End debut … Whoopi Goldberg is set to play Mother Superior in Sister Act. Photograph: Timothy White/PA Sister Act: The Musical is in no way like Sister Act: the movie. At least, that’s what the production team were at pains to tell us when it opened last summer. It had a... 

Bass exploration … Charles Mingus in 1960. Photograph: Corbis “My music is evidence of my soul’s will to live,” Charles Mingus once said, and the evidence of that life-force amounts to some of the most dramatic and powerful jazz composed in the 20th century. A volcanically... 

‘Brilliantly convincing’ . . . Monica Dolan as Maria Marchese You might easily accuse U Be Dead (ITV1, Sunday) of being a little far-fetched. Argentinian stalker bombards psychiatrist-cum-powerboat champion and his fiancee with texts and death threats until their relationship finally... 

OBR interim chairman Sir Alan Budd (left, with George Osborne), is expected to face searching questions at the Treasury committee next Tuesday. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe Pool/EPA Fears rose last night that job losses in the public sector will be higher than forecast by George Osborne’s...