| BEHINDTHESCENES | Not staged in private (6,3,6) |
| THISHAPPYBREED | Play by Noel Coward written in 1939 but not staged until 1942 |
| UNFAZED | Not staged for an audience, so remaining calm (7) |
| REAL | Not staged |
| ALUMINUMORE | Guinea, in West Africa, is the only country whose name appears in three other countries' names; it's currently in headlines for a military coup staged in part over this resource |
| AUNT | Charley's ___ , farce staged in London in 1892, revived and adapted ever since (4) |
| ISRAEL | Is Lear staged in the Middle East? (6) |
| LATEST | News of cricket match staged in California? |
| TYPECAST | Petty scam largely formulated and staged in same way? |
| ARMADILLO | Drama staged in front of love sick creature (9) |
| DIENSTAG | Stockhausen opera staged in Barking (8) |
| OPERETTA | Show staged in a treetop (8) |
| BESS | Porgy And ---, Gershwin opera first staged in 1935 |
| ODEON | Work by Schiller perhaps staged in ancient theatre |
| TEAPARTY | Harold Pinter play first staged in 1968 (3,5) |
| AINTREE | Venue for a world-famous horse race first staged in 1839 (7) |
| ORFF | Carl ?, German composer whose scenic cantata Carmina Burana was first staged in 1937 (4) |
| PARSIFAL | Richard Wagner's last opera, which was first staged in 1882 (8) |
| DEJONGH | Nicholas ___, former theatre critic whose first play, Plague Over England, was staged in 2008 (2,5) |
| ORFEO | 1647 opera by the Italian composer Luigi Rossi that was one of the earliest operas to be staged in France |
