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
  • 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
  • Burch-Smith has a framed Phantom of the Opera playbill above his desk.
    — Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Her home was filled with memories of past performances from photos to props, outfits and playbills.
    — Jacob Beltran, ExpressNews.com, 29 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Knick-knacks from menorahs to playbills of Josephine Baker are jammed in every corner.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
  • In fact, the church has even advertised in playbills for the Broadway production.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The playbill guarantees at least three additional acts, plenty of time leftover for more fun and games.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • Before the musical began, Sadie sat sidesaddle in her aisle seat and studied the playbill.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The centerpiece of the room was a fireplace, with playbills, works of art, and photographs of friends and family propped up on the mantle.
    — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Erika Jayne’s love affair with Las Vegas started with a playbill.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 19 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The hilarious fake cast bios in the playbill have references to the 1970s.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 June 2017
  • Hopefully, these visitors will see the playbills of coming events and become ticket buyers.
    — Ann Conway, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • Millicent Simmonds and Sophia Anne Caruso were also on the playbill.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The names of the oldest Metro stations also contained micro-histories, so too the faded playbills of the theaters and chipped words at the tramcar stop.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Harris, 50, wraps one arm around his daughter and another around Gideon, who matches Burtka by holding up his playbill.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2023
  • 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 sweet post featured a photo of the costars backstage followed by throwback pictures of the two of them and one snap of Armitage, 16, holding up the show’s playbill.
    — Liza Esquibias, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Well, no yellowface here, as the surnames in the playbill — Lim, Panmeechao, Oh, Ozeki — attest.
    — Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • After swapping their playbills for coups of Champagne, the Veuve Clicquot continued to flow throughout dinner.
    — Vogue, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Hence Wagner and Richard Strauss were struck from playbills, while the humanistic Beethoven generally got a pass.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Most regional theaters have maintained decades-long relationships with casting directors, who are duly credited in the theater playbills.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2026
  • 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

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