| UNCLEVANYA | Play originally directed by Stanislavski |
| MISERE | Call during play originally mounted by French department |
| HEDDAGABLER | 1891 Ibsen play originally performed in Danish (5,6) |
| ROYAL | Ruling in play, originally overturned |
| DEADLANGUAGE | Style of expression out of play originally in Latin, for example |
| WINDSOR | Shakespeare play originally published in 1602, The Merry Wives Of ... |
| VANYA | Theatre great Stanislavski directed the 1900 production of Chekhov's Uncle ... |
| METHOD | Acting technique based on emotional identification with a character, developed by Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938) |
| ACTED | Employed the Stanislavski method, say |
| ROADIE | Star's assistant using the Stanislavski Method, Greta Garbo impersonator all ends up |
| STAID | Demure actress taught Fonda Stanislavski method last of all (5) |
| ACTORS | According to Soviet Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, there are no small parts, only small what? (6) |
| MYLIFEINART | The autobiography of the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski (2,4,2,3) |
| STAND | "___ By Me" (film directed by Rob Reiner) |
| SEA | "By the ___" (2015 movie directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt) |
| LATINOLOGUES | Rick Najera play directed by Cheech Marin and subtitled "A Comedy About Life in America" |
| BULWORTH | 1998 comedy-drama film directed by, starring and co-written by Warren Beatty (8) |
| YOUTH | Tennessee Williams 1959 play directed by Elia Kazan in its first appearance, Sweet Bird Of ... |
| ROCKNE | Knute, American Football player portrayed by Pat O'Brien in a 1940 biopic directed by Lloyd Bacon (6 |
| ANON | "Directed by Alan Smithee," essentially: abbr. |
