Caesar, Cilla and a superstar cast: Tristram Kenton's stage archive – in pictures
Tristram Kenton’s photographs have accompanied reviews in the Guardian for more than 30 years. Ahead of a series of themed galleries, we open up his archive with 40 fabulous shots
March 2019
Tara McEvoy on Terrance Hayes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Burgess Prize winner 2019: Jason Watkins on Daisy Campbell’s Pigspurt’s Daughter
January 2019
Showstopper! The hit musical that's made up every night
It started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell all
January 2018
Practical joker Ken Campbell has the last laugh
Stage shows salute theatre genius of king of comic capers 10 years on from his death
May 2017
Cosmic Trigger: Ken Campbell's daughter captures Illuminatus! spirit in trippy epic
Daisy Campbell’s version of Robert Anton Wilson’s cult book harks back to the counterculture era of conspiracies, hallucinogenic drugs and sinister rituals
October 2016
Theatre in the Roundhouse: Berkoff, Warhol and an age of experimentation – in pictures
London’s Roundhouse is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Revisit some of the theatre that was staged in its first wave of activity, from the late 1960s to the early 80s
November 2014
Bill Drummond: the five lessons I learned from Ken Campbell
How do you get Tammy Wynette to sing on your record? How do you stop the Teardrop Explodes from imploding? And what’s the wildest thing you can do with £1m? Bill Drummond of the KLF on the strange wisdom of theatre maverick Ken Campbell
May 2012
The best performance I've ever seen
Miranda Raison: the best performance I've ever seen
Spooks star Miranda Raison on Ken Campbell's thought-provoking one-man show
March 2012
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Nina Conti: 'I feel it's not in my film how much I miss Ken'
The ventriloquist on her life with dummies and the film that pays tribute to her mentor and former lover, the late Ken Campbell
August 2010
Nina Conti
Pleasance Dome Ventriloquist Nina Conti's scurrilous voices are among the most entertaining and comic on the fringe, writes Brian Logan
November 2009
John Joyce obituary
Character actor best known for his work with Ken Campbell and his role in Comedians
October 2009
Ken Campbell: my much-missed madcap friend
With his jokes, quizzes, stunts and sci-fi, Ken Campbell turned theatre on it's head, writes Richard Eyre
July 2009
This vital medium bestows a curious kind of immortality
Mark Lawson
Mark Lawson: No matter how familiar we are with recorded performance, an element of confusion remains when viewing the dead
September 2008
Ken's healing spirit
Letter: Bill Evershed's memory of my brother-in-law Ken Campbell has prompted me to remember a similar event
Letter: Ken Campbell
Keith Flett writes: Ken Campbell (obituary, September 2) was an ambassador for all things London
