Bleed or no bleed, this is a design choice and you're wrong if you think otherwise.
until there is an OFFICIAL STATEMENT from playbill, i disagree. you are not the arbiter of what is wrong or right. you do not have exclusive access to playbill. i will wait to hear from them.
also... do you think im an idiot just because i dont type perfectly? i FULLY understand the design difference between bleed and no bleed. i worked in the printing business. by its very nature, a design will change when it switches from bleed to no bleed -- or vice versa. MY POINT was simply that the reason they switched to no bleed some years ago was not because of a design choice. it was because of economics. talk to anyone at playbill about that if you need confirmation. as a result of that switch, however, the previous "vintage" designs you so love became obsolete.
at the end of the day, SOMEONE is footing the bill for the higher printing costs and it's not a few thousand dollars. it's easily 10k+ per week to print all these playbills with bleed. just surprising to me that they would add such an unnecessary expense to their weekly operating costs (or however they budget the printing of playbills).