Like its peers among the “mega-musicals” of the 1990s such as Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, and Starlight Express - became legendary for its monumental set pieces. The helicopter sequence was always its most iconic moment, a jaw-dropping feat of stagecraft that symbolised the excess and ingenuity of the era. But what this current production proves, decisively, is that Miss Saigon doesn’t need to rely on spectacle alone to be devastatingly effective

It’s strange that I haven’t reviewed Six the Musical before now, given how many times I’ve seen it - including the recent cinema broadcast. Over the last few years, it has quickly become one of my favourite modern musicals, and seeing it return to Edinburgh, the city where it first premiered at the Fringe in 2017, is always welcome

Can anybody commit a forgery against himself?rnIt may seem ironic to complain about the reinvention of a character so chameleonic, but while Mark Leipacher’s staging of The Talented Mr. Ripley takes Patricia Highsmith’s iconic origin story in a stylishly stylised direction, it is ultimately with mixed results.