The Opera's general director, John Crosby, attempted to negotiate for Santa Fe to stage the American premiere of the full three-act opera, but was not successful.

Cui's more successful stage works during his lifetime were the one-act comic opera The Mandarin's Son ( publicly premiered in 1878 ), the three-act Prisoner of the Caucasus ( 1883 ), based on Pushkin, and the one-act Mademoiselle Fifi ( 1903 ), based on Guy de Maupassant.

The Millicent Ward repertory company, like many others of its kind, would stage a new three-act play each week, with rehearsals during the day for a new production, with evening performances for the work rehearsed the previous week.

Lawrence's novel was successfully dramatised for the stage in a three-act play by a young British playwright named John Harte.

Although Gilbert's libretto contains many funny lines, the iambic pentameter and three-act structure tend to make Ida more difficult to stage effectively than some of the other Savoy Operas.

This was the first of many of Dickens's early works adapted for the stage of the Adelphi, including The Pickwick Papers as William Leman Rede's The Peregrinations of Pickwick ; or, Boz-i-a-na, a three-act burletta first performed on 3 April 1837, Frederick Henry Yates's production of Nicholas Nickleby ; or, Doings at Do-The-Boys Hall in November and December 1838, and Edward Stirling's two-act burletta The Old Curiosity Shop ; or, One Hour from Humphrey's Clock ( November and December 1840, January 1841 ).

His only stage work, the three-act operetta Katze und Maus, composed in 1898, premiered in Vienna on 23 December 1898, at the Theater an der Wien.

Country Dance ( also known as Brotherly Love ( USA ) and The Same Skin ( UK ) is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel Household Ghosts ( 1961 ) by James Kennaway which became a three-act stage play 1967.

Kanetkar wrote 40 three-act plays, all of which were performed on the professional stage.

A Doll's House (; also translated as A Doll House ) is a three-act play in prose by the playwright Henrik Ibsen.

He also drew on his personal memories for many of the twenty-two scenes in the three-act play.

His story L ' Arlésienne ( 1872 ) was made into a three-act play with music by Bizet.

The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, focusing on the prosperous middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, " an industrial city in the north Midlands ".

Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.

On July 17, 2008, Farr and Anita Gillette opened " Flamingo Court ," a three-act play at the New World Theaters in New York City.

The Guild's production of One Mad Night in 1940 was the first three-act play performed on television, when it was broadcast on WPTZ, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

" In February 2009, he returned to theater in a Chicago production of Thornton Wilder's three-act play Our Town as George Gibbs at the Lookingglass Theatre.

Shortly after making his first hit in London in Oh, Hush, Rice starred in a more prestigious production, a three-act play at the Adelphi Theatre there.

Maskarade ( 1906 ), a three-act opera based on the play by Ludvig Holberg, is regarded as the Danish national opera.

1974 Author, Due Process of Rebellion, How to Be a Wise Widow, and The Trialle of William Shakespeare ( three-act play )

Generally, the narrative structure of any work ( be it film, play, or novel ) can be divided into three sections, which is referred to as the three-act structure: setup, conflict, resolution.

While there he wrote and directed his three-act play Eve of the Bursting, which was his Master's thesis production in the UW Playhouse.

Translations is a three-act play by Irish playwright Brian Friel, written in 1980.

The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American film based on a three-act play with the same name by George Axelrod.

The film is a remake of the studio's film Mystery of the Wax Museum ( 1933 ), which based on Charles Belden's three-act play, The Wax Works.

It was on this occasion that Stritch famously described Kenneth Williams as being able to make " one word into a three-act play ".

During his school days at Nottingham High School he wrote stories, poems and a three-act play which the school performed.

In 1935 in the Soviet Union, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Vsevolod Meyerhold combined The Proposal with Chekhov's other short plays The Bear and The Anniversary to form a three-act play called 33 Swoons that demonstrated the weakness of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia.

On May 8, 1977, a three-act radio play was broadcast as an episode of famous radio man Himan Brown's The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater.

In a three-act play, each act usually has a different tone to it.

In addition to Brothers in Arms, he wrote a three-act play titled Boot, about three soldiers in a bunker in Vietnam joined by a new recruit that they nickname “ Boot ".

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

The work received a positive review in The New York Times ; the Times reviewer wrote: " It ’ s quite likely that this is the first all-new, entirely American three-act ballet: it is based on an American literary classic, has an original score by an American composer and was given its premiere by an American choreographer and company ....

In May 1953 he was commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein, director of the New York City center of Music and Drama, for a three-act opera to a libretto by Chester Kallman based on a story by Boccaccio, to be titled The Tuscan Players.

Her first piece, The Chapter of Accidents, a three-act opera based on Denis Diderot's Le père de famille, was produced by George Colman the Elder at the Haymarket Theatre on 5 August 1780 and was an immediate success.

Mosè in Egitto (; ) is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a play by Francesco Ringhieri, L ' Osiride, of 1760.

There are also two operas, Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung ( based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew ) and, much less successful, the three-act opera Francesca da Rimini, to a libretto by the composer and Joseph Victor Wildmann, based on Dante's Inferno ( premiered at Mannheim, September 30, 1877 ).

The opera was first produced in a three-act version at Vienna's Theater an der Wien, on 20 November 1805, with additional performances the following two nights.

) Their loosely structured show with the musicians sitting in a semicircle, a tambourine player on one end and a bones player on the other, set the precedent for what would soon become the first act of a standard three-act minstrel show.

The three-act version rapidly taken up by other companies The Metropolitan Opera first presented the work in complete form in December 1980, a performance since released on DVD.

Frankel died in London on 12 February 1973 while working on the three-act opera Marching Song and a ninth symphony, which had been commissioned by the BBC.

Einen Jux will er sich machen ( 1842 ), ( He Will Go on a Spree or He'll Have Himself a Good Time ), is a three-act musical play, designated as a Posse mit Gesang, by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 10 March 1842.