one-act

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The company’s initial performance contains two one-act plays, modern interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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

Margarita’s final minute on Earth lasts 90 flamenco-filled minutes in Golijov’s one-act opera.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 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