In 1999, it was adapted into a Broadway musical by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey. The original production starred Christopher Walken as Gabriel Conroy and won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. In 2012, playwright Frank McGuinness's two-act dramatic adaptation premiered at Dublin's Abbey Theatre, the National Theatre of Ireland, in a production starring Stanley Townsend as Gabriel and Derbhle Crotty as Gretta. In 2019, the story was adapted into a Bengali film named Basu Poribar starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Aparna Sen. References Further reading Bowen, Zack (1974). Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce: Early Poetry Through Ulysses. Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 11–13, 18–23. Maddox, Brenda (1988). Nora – A biography of Nora Joyce, 1988. O'Dowd, Peadar, "James Joyce's 'The Dead' and its Galway Connections" in Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Volume 51, 1999, pp. 189–193. External links Annotated hypertext version. The Dead Worldwide Dubliners Homepage SparkNotes: Dubliners: "The Dead" SparkNotes Symbolism of the Snow Joyce's Dublin: An Exploration of The Dead Joyce's Dublin, a selection of podcasts, interviews, and contextual material (held in UCD repositories and elsewhere) in relation to James Joyce's short story "The Dead". A UCD Digital Library Collection. Short stories by James Joyce Irish short stories Christmas short stories 1914 short stories Short stories adapted into films Ireland in fiction