In November 2007 he directed Things We Want, a two-act play by Jonathan Marc Sherman, for the artist-driven Off-Broadway company The New Group.

In 2006, he made his Broadway debut in Herman Wouk's two-act play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.

A Year In The Death Of Eddie Jester is a two-act comedic play, written by T. Gregory Argall.

She wrote Owners, a two-act, 14-scene play about obsession with power, her first stage play and " her first major theatrical endeavour ", in 1972 which was produced in London the same year.

The action of Emergency Exit, a two-act play by Manlio Santanelli, takes place in a place where there should be no action.

The play was also adapted as a two-act opera by Bruce Saylor and J. D. McClatchy in 1994.

The play has also been adapted and staged as a 1979 Australian two-act musical comedy.

Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton.

The spirits of Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Bohr ’ s wife Margrethe, meet after their deaths to attempt to answer the question which Margrethe poses in the first line of the play, “ Why did he come to Copenhagen ?” They spend the remainder of the two-act drama presenting, debating and rejecting theories that may answer that question.

Cloud Nine is a two-act play written by British playwright Caryl Churchill after workshops with the Joint Stock Theatre Company in late 1978 and first performed at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, on 14 February 1979.

* Sweethearts ( play ), a two-act 1874 comedy by W. S.

He originally wrote it in three acts, but when he got a good offer for a production if he cut it down to a two-act play, he rewrote it.

Les Mamelles de Tirésias ( The Breasts of Tiresias ) is a surrealist two-act opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc, based on the play of the same title by Guillaume Apollinaire, which was written in 1903 but first performed in 1917.

This two-act play with music reflects his love of history, acting, music, and the English language, on the theme of growing old.

The march was originally from Lincke's 1904 two-act burlesque Berliner Luft.

The Nutcracker (, Shchelkunchik ;, Ballet-Féerie ), is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

But Reade's reputation was made by the two-act comedy, Masks and Faces, in which he collaborated with Tom Taylor.

Because of the success of The Brandenburgers, the management of the Provisional Theatre readily agreed to stage the new opera, which was premiered on 30 May 1866 in its original two-act version with spoken dialogue.

The plot of Hoffmann's story ( and Dumas ' adaptation ) was greatly simplified for the two-act ballet.

Stephen Oliver, who wrote the incidental music for the BBC television version, composed a two-act opera, Timon of Athens, which was first performed at the Coliseum, London, on 17 May 1991.

* La serva padrona, a two-act opera buffa by Pergolesi, was intended to break the seriousness of his opera seria Il prigioner superbo ( 1733 ).

It was composed during the period 1863 – 66, and first performed at the Provisional Theatre, Prague, on 30 May 1866 in a two-act format with spoken dialogue.

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 ).

Two years afterwards, 5 Aug. 1850, his two-act drama, the Daughter of the Stars, was acted at the New Strand Theatre.

The word was used ( with a hint of irony ) as the title of Richard Strauss's two-act opera, Intermezzo ( 1924 ), the scale of which far exceeds the intermezzo of tradition.

The second, a two-act opera called Violet, was performed twice at the Guildhall School of Music in London in December 2005 ; it is based on the life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, the British harpsichordist.

Another common model for these works was comparison of two places: De Madrid a París ( Chueca y Velarde, " From Madrid to Paris ") or De Getafe al paraíso (" From Getafe to Paradise ", a two-act zarzuela by Barbieri, Getafe is a town close to Madrid ), Cádiz ( Valverde ).

This film version was then further expanded by Manilow, Feldman, and Sussman into a full-length, two-act stage musical that ran at the Prince of Wales Theatre on London's West End for two years prior to a lengthy tour of the UK.

His final opera, the two-act comedy Der Hussar, was well received when it was staged in Vienna in 1898.

A revised two-act work was presented at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples in the autumn of 1790.

The opera was commissioned by, and had its first performance, in its original two-hour, two-act version, on 4 November 1965 at the New York City Opera.

The world première of this two-act ballet was on June 28, 1841 at the Théâtre de l ' Académie Royale de Musique, Paris.

There were discussions of an 1867 professional production under the management of Thomas German Reed, but instead Reed commissioned Sullivan and Burnand to write a two-act comic opera, The Contrabandista, which was less well received.

The first Sullivan-Burnand collaboration led to a commission by Thomas German Reed for a two-act opera, The Contrabandista ( 1867 ; revised and expanded as The Chieftain in 1894 ), but it did not do as well.

The first performance of the two-act, opéra bouffe version took place at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in Paris on 21 October 1858 and ran for an initial 228 performances.

The first act of Gilbert and Sullivan's two-act comic operetta The Gondoliers is set in Venice, and the show's two protagonists ( as well as its men's chorus ) are of the eponymous profession, even though the political irony that makes up the core of the show has much more to do with British society than Venice.

The band achieved notoriety by making their first major gig as a band an ' autobiographical ' two-act musical at the legendary DC Space in February 1987.

Jules Massenet's two-act ballet Cigale, first performed at the Opéra Comique in Paris in 1904, portrays the cicada as a charitable woman who takes pity on " La Pauvrette " ( the poor little one ).

In its two-act form plus sketches of the third act, Lulu made its American debut at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico during the 1963 season, with the American soprano Joan Carroll in the title role.

A 1997 two-act version of Iolanta is performed regularly at Bolshoi Theatre ( 13 nights during the 2006 season ).

Its initial success encouraged its authors to write the two-act opera, The Contrabandista ( 1867 ), revised and expanded as The Chieftain ( 1894 ), but it did not achieve great popularity in either version.