Of all the ones posted so far You Can't Take It With You is my favorite Playbill for the revivals and Finding Neverland wins hands down for the new works. Whoever designed those two did some excellent work. The King and I and An American in Paris are nice as well. I don't think it's impossible to put together a good image with photos but it doesn't seem to inspire a lot of creativity.
On the Twentieth Century's Playbill is quite a letdown. Couldn't they have at least slapped a train on it or something?
I think the PLAYBILL format could use a redesign, and that looks amazing! I've always thought the white border was unnecessary and looked silly. As Fantod says it evokes the old designs nicely.
I imagine the Playbill redesign is only for Skylight, since shows opening after it are not using the new design. I love the look of the Skylight Playbill. It's a great image, although I wouldn't want to see this style on all Playbills. It's an update of the look of the Playbill of the 1960s, which commonly had a black-and-white photo from the production and the title in white capital letters. The typeface used for the word "Skylight" here is the 1960s Playbill typeface, not the one used for the logo of the show.
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