Here are some fascinating photos selected from the Evening News archives which give a flavour of what was happening on Edinburgh’s theatre scene in the early 1990s.
There are pictures of Sean Connery - and his family - as well as Stephen Fry and Rudolf Nureyev, not to mention singers Barry Manilow and Vanilla Ice.
And there are also pictures of the Empire Theatre as a bingo hall before it was transformed into the Festival Theatre.
Scroll through and get a taste of theatre in Edinburgh three decades ago.
9. Pig Play
Actor Bob Mackintosh had a porcine role in the Fringe production Pig Play during Edinburgh Festival 1990. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald
10. Molecule Theatre Company
The Molecule Theatre Company - Hannah Smith, Paul Cleasby, Ruth Arnold and Ben Harrop - were specialists in bringing science to children via theatre. The group performed 'It's All in the Stars' during Edinburgh Science Festival 1990. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
11. The Lightning Plebiscite
Edinburgh Theatre Workshop's production of The Lightning Plebiscite at Leith theatre, May 1990, commemorating the loss of the boundary and absorption of Leith into Edinburgh in 1920. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald
12. West Lothian Youth Theatre
West Lothian Youth Theatre's summer project was to end in a Knights and Dragons procession in August 1990. The picture shows some of the children in their costumes. | TSPL Photo: Bill Henry