| OPENINGNIGHT | The first performance of a theatrical production (7,5) |
| STAGEMANAGER | Member of a theatrical production team (5,7) |
| ANGEL | A financial backer of a theatrical production (5) |
| OPENING | Sequence of moves at the start of a game of chess; or, the first performance of a play (7) |
| PREMIERE | The first performance of a musical or theatrical work or the first showing of a film (8) |
| COSTUMEDRAMA | Sad commuter staged a theatrical production set in the past (7,5) |
| SMOKEEFFECTS | Fog and haze generated for a theatrical production |
| CASANOVA | This great lover of the 18th century may have attended the first performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, the opera based on the mythical Don Juan |
| TAB | Versatile word with meanings including an aerofoil, a bill, a cigarette, a collar insignia, a dose of LSD, a flap, a fob, a loop of a theatrical curtain, the drape itself, musical notation, a pill, a |
| PREMIERES | Gives the first performance of (9) |
| SHOW | How's the tail-ender come first in a theatrical production? (4) |
| EXTRAVAGANZA | Spectacular theatrical production |
| STAGEDIRECTOR | A person who directs a theatrical production (5,8) |
| PLAYBILL | A poster advertising a theatrical production (8) |
| DRAMA | Measure of whisky needed before a theatrical production |
| STAGEHAND | Person who moves the scenery and props in a theatrical production (9) |
| CAST | Shed required for a theatrical production |
| PARTY | Gathering after a theatrical production |
| OPERA | Pore over a theatrical production (5) |
| STAGING | Putting on, as a theatrical production |
