And this selection of old photos includes not only well-established stars like Sean Connery, Shirley Bassey and Rikki Fulton, who were still active in the late 1980s, but also big names of the future, like a young Jude Law.
And, of course, the Capital’s theatre world also includes a host of local actors and young talent who enjoy taking to the stage.
Scroll through these pictures from the Evening News archive and see the variety of what was on offer in Edinburgh’s theatres nearly four decades ago.
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13. Chuck Berry
American singer/songwriter/musician Chuck Berry performing on stage at the Playhouse theatre in Edinburgh, February 1988. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
14. As You Like It
Siobhan Redmond as Rosalind and Paul Samson as Orlando in a modern dress version of William Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Lyceum theatre Edinburgh, October 1988. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
15. Sean Connery
Sean Connery was in town during the 1986 Edinburgh Festival and made an appearance at the 40th Anniversary Gala Concert. Interviewed by the Evening News, he noted it was easier to get around the city than when he was growing up. "Where I lived in Fountainbridge, to get to Davidson's Mains or Ferry Road or Pilton, it took two buses - beg pardon, two trams. It's all so much smaller now." | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan
16. Lion Dance
Members of the Chinese Theatre Circle in traditional costume performed the Lion Dance outside the Assembly Rooms in George Street to promote their Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, August 1988. | TSPL Photo: Rod Fleming