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
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
