Retro Playbill Design

Double post.

Updated On: 9/30/15 at 12:19 PM

It's really interesting to me just to go through the Playbill Vault and look at all these "vintage" Playbills and the styles and how they've changed and evolved. You can spend hours doing this as they go as far back as possible. There's also a member of BWW that's a graphic designer for Playbill but I don't remember his name. He said once in a post he did the rainbow for June this year. It would be a fun party game for theater people showing the covers without the name of the show and having people guess.

Steve C. said: "It's really interesting to me just to go through the Playbill Vault and look at all these "vintage" Playbills and the styles and how they've changed and evolved. You can spend hours doing this as they go as far back as possible. There's also a member of BWW that's a graphic designer for Playbill but I don't remember his name. He said once in a post he did the rainbow for June this year. It would be a fun party game for theater people showing the covers without the name of the show and having people guess."

That is one of my favourite things to do! - yes a great theatre game. The playbillvault is so great in what they do - I just wish they would also catalogue Off Broadway works, though I can see the difficulties, it would be very interesting to see the differences in cast between Off Broadway and Broadway - or differences in Playbill design (a la Fun Home).