one-act

Example Sentences

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The tiny Public Assembly theater company is taking community theater to the next level by developing and performing three one-act plays per month.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

His performance in Horton Foote's one-act play The Midnight Caller led the playwright to recommend him for the role of Boo Radley in the 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 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

I tell them my idea of turning her story into a one-act or how I could do a solo piece.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan