How to Use playbill in a Sentence

playbill

noun

• At the end of the night, guests will get to take home a copy of the playbill signed by the stars of the show.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2021
• Burch-Smith has a framed Phantom of the Opera playbill above his desk.
  — Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
• The scrolling credits and the fine print in the playbill record a strict division of labor.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• The goal was first to be fair and chronicle the events leading to the mascot change, according to the show’s playbill.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 May 2021
• The hilarious fake cast bios in the playbill have references to the 1970s.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 June 2017
• The image on the Leopoldstadt playbill is of a young Jewish child playing with a cat's cradle.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• At 88, Cleveland's grande dame of theater keeps moving forward, with a full playbill of shows on the horizon.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• Before the musical began, Sadie sat sidesaddle in her aisle seat and studied the playbill.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• Well, no yellowface here, as the surnames in the playbill — Lim, Panmeechao, Oh, Ozeki — attest.
  — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
• Her home was filled with memories of past performances from photos to props, outfits and playbills.
  — Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• Erika Jayne’s love affair with Las Vegas started with a playbill.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 19 Apr. 2023
• Submissions came from as close as Triton's campus and as far away as Michigan, according to the playbill.
  — Rachel K. Hindery, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• The playbill guarantees at least three additional acts, plenty of time leftover for more fun and games.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 29 May 2018
• Here’s a playbill credit one doesn’t see often: Pie consultant.
  — Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Dan Klarer is ostensibly the only actor in director Robert Boles’ cast, but don’t let the playbill fool you.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2017
• The playbill handily tells you which contemporary singers inspire the queens’ songs; the list ranges from Beyoncé to Adele to Britney Spears.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
• Hence Wagner and Richard Strauss were struck from playbills, while the humanistic Beethoven generally got a pass.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• After swapping their playbills for coups of Champagne, the Veuve Clicquot continued to flow throughout dinner.
  — Vogue, 14 Nov. 2019
• Intagliata: In other words—this work lays out a more definitive playbill of the acts in this galactic drama.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2022
• In the meantime, the Duartes have launched a sponsorship campaign, starting at $35, who will receive playbill recognition and a T-shirt, up to large donations that come with the opportunity to name a seat — or even the stage.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 13 May 2021
• Singer was also the group's publicity and marketing director, having designed the posters, artwork, tickets, playbills and t-shirts for the show.
  — Junette Reyes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Hopefully, these visitors will see the playbills of coming events and become ticket buyers.
  — Ann Conway, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
• The audience’s involvement in the soul-searching to come is telegraphed when patrons pass through the Woolly Mammoth Theatre doors and are handed, along with a playbill, notebook paper and a pencil.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• The section is well illustrated with playbills, advertisements and photographs of Indians that were taken to be sold at the shows.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
• And while paper playbills have made a return in most venues, some theaters still relying on digital substitutes.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• Posters and musical playbill photos, clippings from my high school’s newspaper, drawings, and ticket stubs.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
• Set in a mythical town in rural upstate Maine by the name of Almost, the story is about ordinary people taking extraordinary risks, the playbill says.
  — Fred Swegles, Orange County Register, 19 Apr. 2017
• Judging by Guadalupe's description of it, and the show's playbill information, the company's new evening-length story ballet is completely out of the ordinary.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 7 May 2018
• Photographs and playbills of a Hindu drama attributed to King Shudraka in 1924.
  — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• Beck Center for the Arts, like many theaters today, is experimenting with an all-digital playbill accessed via their website/QP code rather than a hard copy program.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 23 July 2021

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024