interlude

An intervening episode, feature, or period of time.

A short farcical entertainment performed between the acts of a medieval mystery or morality play.

A 16th-century genre of comedy derived from this.

An entertainment between the acts of a play.

A short piece inserted between the parts of a longer composition.

To insert between, as an interlude.

To act as an interlude; come between other things.

In dramatic art, an intermediate entertainment; a short independent performance introduced on the stage between the parts or in the course of the main entertainment; also, any similar by-play or episode or incident occurring in other circumstances.

In the early English drama, a play; particularly, a play from real life, distinguished from the mysteries and moralities.