| "Masterpiece Theatre" fare | 36 |
| "C.S.I.," e.g. | 24 |
| Work on stage | 13 |
| What no band wants from fans | 28 |
| Unnecessary hand-wringing, say | 30 |
| Type of stage play | 18 |
| Tony category | 13 |
| Thespian's major | 20 |
| Thespian's forte | 20 |
| Theatrical work | 15 |
| Theater offering, sometimes | 27 |
| The theater | 11 |
| The stuff of plays | 18 |
| Synge or O'Casey work | 25 |
| Suspense | 8 |
| Story of conflict | 17 |
| Stage play | 10 |
| Sophocles's forte | 21 |
| Soap, say | 9 |
| Soap, for example | 17 |
| Soap genre | 10 |
| Situation of conflict | 21 |
| Shaw product | 12 |
| Shaw creation | 13 |
| Shavian forte | 13 |
| Serious story for the stage | 27 |
| Serious stage piece | 19 |
| Serious series | 14 |
| Serious play? | 13 |
| Save it for your mama | 21 |
| Relationship complications | 26 |
| Real-life ___ | 13 |
| Product of Coward or Howard | 27 |
| Popular Yale major | 18 |
| Play without much joy? | 22 |
| Pinter's practice | 21 |
| Pinter's forte | 18 |
| Peele product | 13 |
| Opposite of comedy | 18 |
| O'Neill's forte | 23 |
| O'Neill's field | 23 |
| O'Neill specialty | 21 |
| Miller creation | 15 |
| Marlowe product | 15 |
| Many an Arthur Miller work | 26 |
| lonesco product | 15 |
| Kyd product | 11 |
| Kazan's forte | 17 |
| It's acted seriously | 24 |
| Ionesco work | 12 |
| Inge's field | 16 |
| Inge forte | 10 |
| Ibsen output | 12 |
| Howard Sackler product | 22 |
| Hourlong TV show, often | 23 |
| Hourlong show, often | 20 |
| Hellman's "The Children's Hour," e.g. | 55 |
| Harold Pinter's forte | 25 |
| Fugard's field | 18 |
| Fugard creation | 15 |
| Film type | 9 |
| Film or TV genre | 16 |
| Euripides' genre | 20 |
| Euripides' forte | 20 |
| Euripides creation | 18 |
| Eugene O'Neill specialty | 28 |
| Emotionally charged situation | 29 |
| Emotional series of events | 26 |
| Emotional rendering | 19 |
| David Mamet play e.g. | 22 |
| Counterpart of comedy | 21 |
| Broadway play, often | 20 |
| Beaumont and Fletcher's forte | 33 |
| Award show category | 19 |
| Arts branch | 11 |
| Arthur Miller's forte | 25 |
| Albee's forte | 17 |
| Albee's field | 17 |
| Albee offering | 14 |
| Aeschylus creation | 18 |
| Actor's major | 17 |
| A work by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman | 34 |
| A lot of Shakespeare's writing | 34 |
| "Toys in the Attic," e.g. | 35 |
| "The Crucible," e.g. | 30 |
| "Scarface" genre | 26 |
| "Save the ___ for your momma" | 39 |
| "Macbeth," for one | 28 |
| "Ghosts" is one | 25 |
| "Dracula," e.g. | 25 |
| "Breaking Bad," e.g. | 30 |
| "Antony and Cleopatra," e.g. | 38 |
| "A View from the Bridge" is one | 41 |
| ''Masterpiece Theatre'' fare | 44 |
| __ queen | 8 |
| Everything's always about her | 33 |
| One making a mountain out of a mole hill | 40 |
| One prone to emotional display | 30 |
| "Histrionics? These rockers!"? | 40 |
| Soap operas, e.g. | 17 |