one-act
Example Sentences
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With the rising arc of a one-act play, things there will get out of hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
For the occasion, artistic director Susan Jaffe astutely chose 11 one-act ballets and four pas de deux.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
“Blue Moon” is essentially a one-act play, which is to say it’s all talk, and likely to bore those who are primarily interested in spectacle, or even high drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The smaller canvas of the one-act form allowed Greenberg to hone in his theatrical vision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
I urged that our first offering should be a bill of three one-act plays, including Paul Green’s Hymn to the Rising Sun, a grim, poetical, powerful one-acter dealing with chain gang conditions in the South.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
