Sentence examples for playbill from inspiring English sources

A playbill of a Planché production of 1824 read: Shakespeare's Tragedy of King John with an attention to Costume never equalled on the English Stage.

I often find this explanation odious, but in this case it seems particularly apt: a lefty baby-boomer — he was described in the playbill as "a socialist, a philosophical communist" — he arrived in Russia amid unprecedented social unrest and projected onto the situation the clichés he has likely heard in the West, clichés culminating in the image of Putin as the slayer of children.

Patch was killed and Gregg disappeared not to be seen by grandfather until years later when he read the playbill of a cheap theatrical show announcing 'The Tragedy of Sam Patch in 3 acts starring Joe Gregg, Sam Patch's old friend and associate'.

According to a playbill from 1736, cited in David Willoughby's classic history, "The Super-Athletes," Topham's act included the following feats: "He lays the back Part of his Head on one Chair, and his Heels on another, and suffers four corpulent men to stand on his Body and heaves them up and down.

When Hynes was preparing the playbill for "Beauty Queen," she gave him a draft of his biographical note.

As of November, the Hall — or rather, cardboard box — of Fame, contained such relics of Chicago's literary history as an original playbill of Lorraine Hansberry's "Raisin in the Sun," a portrait of Studs Terkel, and a framed copy of the poem "We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks.

It's possible that this is the project Sidney mentioned in a 1946 playbill, in a bio that describes him writing a book whose title is underlined at the top of these pages, "Memoirs of an American Untouchable".

In addition, he experienced increased drowsiness, numbness in the thighs, and frequent doodling in his Playbill.

A playbill from 1840 for a rabbinical magician: "There are rabbinic and Hasidic traditions of rabbis doing things that might be considered trickery.

The Table of Contents is a playbill of sorts.

Every so often, Lotta, a deranged lady, popped into the lobby to recite an ad she had memorized from a theatre playbill.