| UNCLEVANYA | Chekhov play based on his earlier 'The Wood Demon' |
| NOISESOFF | 1982 farce by English dramatist Michael Frayn expanded from his earlier one-act play Exits (1977) |
| YNGLING | Three-person racing keelboat designed by Norwegian Jan Linge in 1966 as a smaller version of his earlier Soling; literally, 'youngster' (7) |
| LARAMIEPROJECT | Kaufman play based on the Matthew Shepard incident, with "The" |
| TOADOFTOADHALL | Play based on The Wind in the Willows |
| CLASSACT | 1992 comedy film, starring Kid 'n Play, based on Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper |
| THEKINGANDI | Musical play based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam (3,4,3,1) |
| ERRORS | The Comedy of -; Shakespeare's play based on mistaken identities (6) |
| FARCE | A broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable situations (5) |
| DUNSINANE | 2010 David Greig play based on events after the defeat of Macbeth |
| AMADEUS | Peter Shaffer play based on the lives of Mozart and Salieri |
| THEDYNASTS | Thomas Hardy play based on the Napoleonic wars |
| BREAKINGTHECODE | 1986 Hugh Whitemore play based on the life of this puzzle's honoree (or what you should be doing to |
| ALIBI | 1928 play based on by Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (5) |
| TRU | Jay Presson Allen's Tony Award-winning play based on the works of Truman Capote |
| AMANFORALLSEASONS | Robert Bolt play based on the life of Sir Thomas More (1,3,3,3,7) |
| MARYSTUART | 1800 Friedrich Schiller verse play based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots (4,6) |
| IAMACAMERA | 1951 John Van Druten stage play based on The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (1,2,1,6) |
| CAMERA | "I Am a ___" (play based on Christopher Isherwood's stories) |
| MIA | "Mamma ___!" (play based on ABBA's music) |
