Playbill PrideThe 2025 Playbill Pride Covers Have Been Released
Plus, look back on every Broadway show that has had a rainbow Playbill (aka Pridebill).
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Playbill Staff
May 27, 2025
Every June, Playbill celebrates Pride month in a very special manner: by turning our iconic yellow Playbill logo into every color of the rainbow, in support of the LGBTQIA+ community. We first launched these special covers in June 2014 and over the years, they've even acquired their own special nickname: Pridebills.
Browse through the gallery below to see all of this year's roster of Pridebills, which includes Death Becomes Her and Oh, Mary! Scroll down to learn about the history of Pridebills and to browse through every past Broadway rainbow cover.
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Playbill Pride returns June 1, celebrating LGBTQ Pride and the theatre's diverse community of artists, innovators, service organizations, and fans. #PlaybillPride
The Pridebills first launched in 2014. As Playbill CEO and President Philip S. Birsh said at the time: “The Broadway community has always been on the forefront of this issue—leading the way to prove that equality, love and respect matters. Playbill continues its support for this vital cause by honoring all the outstanding efforts made by the community at large and will lend our magazine—the magazine of Broadway—to celebrate all the theatrical community has done to further the efforts towards fairness and equality.” It wasn't just a cosmetic show of support—Playbill has been a large supporter of the charity organization Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS since its inception.
The person who designed the Playbill Pride logo was Robbie Rozelle. He explained how he landed upon the rainbow design: “When creating the original art for Playbill Pride, I went through various incarnations. I knew it had to stand out, but also work with black text on top of it, with Playbill’s name and theatre name legible. We played around with options of changing the coloring of Playbill’s name, and we had one that I loved that had the rainbow flag flying behind, but I worried about things being readable. That’s when I decided to just go to the basics of Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flag. I remember getting on the train after shows and seeing people holding their Playbills and beaming, knowing that I was part of something so significant to my people.”
Though the Pridebill launched in 2014, the covers had to go on hiatus in 2020 and 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic closure. So, this year is technically the ninth year that Playbill has printed these covers. Browse through past Broadway covers below. We hope as you go to the theatre in June, you cherish your Pridebill and say a word of thanks to the many queer individuals who have made an immeasurable impact on the theatre community.
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