Dramatize

[Sarah]

To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama;to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or anhistorical episode.They dramatized tyranny for public execration. Motley.

[Sarah]

The act of traumatizing people through the overuse of unneeded dramatic enhancements. IE- Any entity that presents a story in such a way as to elicit as much emotion as possible. A good example is news channels that use musical scores with a story.

[Monty]

Adapt (a novel) or present (a particular incident) as a play or film.

[Britney]

When writers dramatize books, stories, poems, etc., they write them again in a form that can be performed.