This article aims to summarize and conclude the interpretation, adaptation and the contemporary stage art features formed by those interpretation and adaptation for Cao Yu's plays on Chinese contemporary drama stage in the first 10 years of the twenty-first Century. In the premise of general description of theater features that Cao Yu's plays are staged frequently and innovatively such as Thunderstorm, The Sunrise, The Wild Land, Peking Man and other plays , this paper researches , analyses and evaluates academically for different interpretation, different directing styles and different stage presentation. Affirmed the artistic creation methods-they both respect for the original, while the aesthetics of the original spirit of continuous distillation; at the same time to criticize the wantonly tampered with the original aesthetic spirit and commercial operations.The motif of the article is to explore how to play the modern significance of Cao Yu's plays, and deepen their cultural values, with the help of analysis and discussion about the previous stage practice.