Word: three-act
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...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, detonates a shattering three-act marital explosion that, for savage wit and skill, is unparalleled in the recent annals of the U.S. stage...
...scrambled-after social affair that the nation's capital has seen in many years. Ostensibly, it was to celebrate the Washington opening of Mr. President, a sorry, soggy musical by Irving Berlin still on its way to Broadway. In fact, Mr. President was only the intermission in a three-act social extravaganza...
Nearby, the People's Liberation Army's Comrades-in-Arms Cultural Troupe was performing "Steeled in Battles." This three-act play tells "how three generations of a poor peasant family oppose landlord oppression. Finally, led by the Communist Party, they find their road to liberation...
...study. The Sanchez family are urban slum-dwellers. They are not all literate, but are very well-spoken, indicating perhaps that Lewis' technique could not be fruitfully applied to a culture with a limited vocabulary and a limited range of experience. Finally, the literary structure Lewis presents is a three-act drama (novel?) (each act covering the same time period) with four scenes per act (the story of that period as told by the four children), and a prologue and epilogue in the words of the father...
...court of the Medici in Florence for "reprehensible conduct." In more sober moods he reputedly wrote 100 operas, many of them tradition-breaking efforts that helped determine the shape of opera to come. Last week the first, and one of the best, of Cesti's works, his three-act Orontea, was back in Milan after an absence of 300 years. It still looked fresh enough, enthused Milan's Il Giorno, "to teach today's composers how an opera should be written...