There are plenty familiar names in this selection of old photos of Edinburgh theatres in the mid-1970s, drawn from the Evening News archive - Rikki Fulton, Una McLean, Walter Carr and Johnny Beattie as well as Windsor Davies, Ian Lavender, Jimmy Edwards, Eric Sykes, Andy Stewart - and even Rudolf Nureyev.
And it’s not all panto and Festival - there’s a picture of the newly-refurbished Playhouse in 1975 and an open-air version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in modern dress at Leith Links.
Scroll through the pictures and get a flavour of what was on offer in Edinburgh’s theatre world 50 years ago.
9. Babes in the Wood audition
Children queue for the Babes in the Wood pantomime audition at the Kings theatre in Edinburgh in October 1974 - director Clive Perry and the Howard & Wyndham casting director put them through their paces. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
10. Andy Stewart
Scottish entertainer Andy Stewart with the girls of the 'Scotch Corner' chorus line at the King's theatre in Edinburgh, May 1974. | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
11. The Bacchae
Windsor Davies as The Messenger at the front of the stage and Robin Ellis (right) rehearsing The Bacchae at the Assembly Hall during the Edinburgh Festival 1974. | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton
12. A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Young Lyceum theatre company presented an open-air version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in modern dress at Leith Links, Edinburgh in June 1974. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan