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

Alfie, who’s either being willfully obtuse or radically uncompromising, sees nothing sacrilegious in Wilde’s one-act tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

She had a wonderful memory of journeying to a strange part of Brooklyn to see the great Sarah Bernhardt in a one-act play in a Keith vaudeville house.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith