playbill

English

Noun

playbill (plural playbills)

1. A poster advertising a theatrical performance.
2. A program / programme / pamphlet for a theatrical performance.

Quotations

• 1830 John Bernard - Retrospections of the Stage - Page 155

  On strolling about the town, I perceived a playbill, and at the head of it the name of that celebrated itinerant, James Whitely.

• 1853 George E Baker - The Works of William H. Seward - Page 561

  I confess my regret, although meliorated, was not banished by reading upon my playbill the name of Madame Malibran as the principal singer.

Translations

poster

Finnish: ohjelmajuliste (fi) Italian: manifesto m., locandina f.

Swedish: teateraffisch (sv)

program

Finnish: ohjelma (fi), ohjelmavihkonen (fi)

Italian: locandina f.