one-act
Example Sentences
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Simply put, the Koch’s autumn programming tends to present mixed bills of one-act, often storyless works that emphasize the ballet part of the company’s name.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
“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
This is “The Lunar Light: Discovery,” part VR experience, part mini-escape room, part science experiment and part one-act play.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 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
