Cinema
At least two motion picture versions of the play have been made:
- A 1935, 40-minute black-and-white movie directed by Brian Desmond Hurst with screenplay adaptation by Patrick Kirwan with Sara Allgood and, notably, Synge's bereaved fiancée Marie O'Neill. Hurst had been mentored in Hollywood by John Ford, and Ruth Barton describes scenes in the film as "remarkably Fordian."
- A 1987 47-minute color movie directed and adapted by Ronan O'Leary with Geraldine Page (in her final film appearance).
Opera
The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) made an almost verbatim setting of the play as a one-act opera, using the same title (1927).
Bruce Montgomery (1927–2008) wrote a light opera, Spindrift (1963), that was based on Riders to the Sea.
German composer Eduard Pütz (1911–2000) also set the play as an opera, using the same title (1972).
American composer Marga Richter (1926-2020) also set the play as a one-act opera, using the same title (1996).
French composer Henri Rabaud (1873-1949) L’appel de la mer, a one-act opera, (1924), libretto by Rabaud based on Riders to the Sea, debut in Paris, Salle Favart, April 10, 1924
Dance
Mary Anthony's piece is titled Threnody.
Stage
Señora Carrar's Rifles is a one-act play adaptation.
DruidSynge a stage reenactment of all Synge's plays.
