Plays based on actual events

play by William Shakespeare

drama in four acts by Eugene O'Neill

1953 play by Arthur Miller

The Mālavikāgnimitram (Sanskrit: मालविकाग्निमित्रम्, translation : Mālavikā and Agnimitra) is a Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa. Based on some events of the reign of Pushyamitra Shunga, it is his first play.

play by T. S. Eliot

tragedy written by Friedrich Schiller

Becket or The Honour of God (), often shortened to Becket, is a 1959 stage play written in French by Jean Anouilh. It is a depiction of the conflict between Thomas Becket and King Henry II of England leading to Becket's assassination in 1170. It contains many historical inaccuracies, which the author acknowledged.

play by Michael Frayn

play by Robert Bolt (1960)

play by John Logan

play written by Edgar Allan Poe

1612 play by John Webster

fragmentary play by Friedrich Schiller

American play about the Scopes trial

1878 play written by August Strindberg

1993 play by Wole Soyinka

play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project

2011 play by Dustin Lance Black

1985 play by Larry Kramer

play by Olav Gullvåg

play by Bruce Norris

play written by Maxwell Anderson

2006 play by Peter Morgan

play written by Joost van den Vondel

Nederlaget (The Defeat) is a play by the Norwegian writer Nordahl Grieg, published in 1937.

1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham

play written by Howard Sackler

play written by Harvey Fierstein

2000 film by John Berry

play written by Dore Schary

play by Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

one-act play

Machinal is a 1928 play by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell, inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder. Its Broadway premiere, directed by Arthur Hopkins, is considered one of the highpoints of Expressionist theatre in history of the American stage.