Top Films Adapted from the Stage

By: Uli³Cai​n

Here are some films I enjoyed that started on Broadway (or off it), some I liked the play better, some the film. There’s no real order to the list.

I decided not to include any Shakespeare on the list.

• 01
  The Laramie Project
  Moisés Kaufman
• 02
  Rent
  Chris Columbus
• 03
  Heights
  Chris Terrio
• 04
  Kissing Jessica Stein
  Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
• 05
  Closer
  Mike Nichols
• 06
  Hurlyburly
  Anthony Drazan
• 07
  Drunks
  Peter Cohn
• 08
  Oleanna
  David Mamet
• 09
  Glengarry Glen Ross
  James Foley
• 10
  A Soldier's Story
  Norman Jewison
• 11
  West Side Story
  Jerome Robbins
• 12
  Jesus Christ Superstar
  Norman Jewison
• 13
  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  David Swift
• 14
  Bye Bye Birdie
  George Sidney
• 15
  Talk Radio
  Oliver Stone
• 16
  Doubt
  John Patrick Shanley
• 17
  Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
  Tom Stoppard
• 18
  Sister My Sister
  Nancy Meckler
• 19
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Mike Nichols
• 20
  A Streetcar Named Desire
  Elia Kazan
• 21
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Richard Brooks
• 22
  Fiddler on the Roof
  Norman Jewison
• 23
  Hair
  Miloš Forman
• 24
  A Chorus Line
  Richard Attenborough
• 25
  The Phantom of the Opera
  Joel Schumacher
• 26
  A Few Good Men
  Rob Reiner
• 27
  'night, Mother
  Tom Moore