Hello again, Dolly! Stars who return to the same roles – in pictures
Carol Channing, who died earlier this week, played the title role in Hello, Dolly! more than 5,000 times between the 1960s and 90s. Which other stars have reprised the same characters?
Carol Channing: the sparky Broadway and film star with a husky comic drawl
Carol Channing, star of Hello, Dolly! on Broadway, dies aged 97
December 2016
Debbie Reynolds dies one day after daughter Carrie Fisher
Anti-Santa: the best alternative Christmas films on TV
September 2016
Hello, Dolly! with Bette Midler breaks Broadway ticket sales record
More than $9m spent in first 24 hours on tickets to musical revival to be staged from April next year
February 2016
Carol Channing at the Super Bowl: 'It was like an opening night on Broadway'
The half-time show has come a long way – but an early pioneer was the great Carol Channing. Now 95, the star of Hello, Dolly! spoke to Les Carpenter about her Super Bowl experience
January 2016
Silent but deadly!
Anita Loos – sharp, shameless humour of the 'world's most brilliant woman'
And the Oscar goes to (or it should anyway)
December 2015
Film blog
And the Braddie goes to … Peter Bradshaw's favourite films of the year
Awards season has awoken again, and it’s time for my personal award category list of the best films this year. Here, in no particular order, are this year’s “Braddies”…
January 2015
Rod Taylor obituary
Film actor who excelled in tough-guy roles but had a softer side
June 2012
Tony awards: everything you wanted to know about the Broadway bash
David Cote: As US TV braces itself for this year's Tonys, find out why they are seven hours long, who might give an embarrassing speech, and whether James Corden can beat Philip Seymour Hoffman
October 2010
Joseph Stein obituary
Broadway musical theatre writer who wrote the libretto for Fiddler on the Roof and the screenplay for the 1971 film
August 2009
Hello, Dolly!; Another Door Closed
Samantha Spiro takes centre stage in a lively revival of a musical classic in Regent's Park, while Pinter is evoked by Peter Gill in Bath, says Susannah Clapp
June 2008
The Observer profile
Super trouper of the silver screen
The unassuming question master
September 2007
The play's the thing, so why are there no new ones?
Matt Wolf: Whereas last autumn at least had the commercial transfers of Rock 'n' Roll and Frost/Nixon to set pulses racing, this season is offering retreads, however fresh, of familiar territory.
