| MARYSTUART | 1800 Friedrich Schiller verse play based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots (4,6) |
| REIGN | Historical drama series about the early life of Mary Queen of Scots |
| IAMACAMERA | 1951 John Van Druten stage play based on The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (1,2,1,6) |
| THEDYNASTS | Thomas Hardy play based on the Napoleonic wars |
| UNCLEVANYA | Chekhov play based on his earlier 'The Wood Demon' |
| THEKINGANDI | Musical play based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam (3,4,3,1) |
| AMANFORALLSEASONS | Robert Bolt play based on the life of Sir Thomas More (1,3,3,3,7) |
| BREAKINGTHECODE | 1986 Hugh Whitemore play based on the life of this puzzle's honoree (or what you should be doing to |
| TRU | Jay Presson Allen's Tony Award-winning play based on the works of Truman Capote |
| FARCE | A broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable situations (5) |
| AMADEUS | Peter Shaffer play based on the lives of Mozart and Salieri |
| THEDRESSER | '83 play-based movie |
| LARAMIEPROJECT | Kaufman play based on the Matthew Shepard incident, with "The" |
| TOADOFTOADHALL | Play based on The Wind in the Willows |
| DOCUDRAMA | Genre of film or play based on a re-enactment of real-life events (9) |
| ALIBI | 1928 play based on by Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (5) |
| ERRORS | The Comedy of -; Shakespeare's play based on mistaken identities (6) |
| CLASSACT | 1992 comedy film, starring Kid 'n Play, based on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper |
| DUNSINANE | 2010 David Greig play based on events after the defeat of Macbeth |
| ODETOJOY | Friedrich Schiller poem used in the final movement of Symphony No 9 in D minor by Ludwig van Beethov |
