If you were around from 1986 to 1993, you may recall the smart, funny, sometimes serious hit television series Designing Women. The show focused on the lives of four women and one man who worked together at Sugarbaker’s, an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. Four decades later, the designers take to the stage in a world-premiere play. The characters are still Julia, Mary Jo, Suzanne, and Charlene, but the year is 2020 and the business is at a crossroads. The play, like the show, is written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. —E.C.

Travels to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Dallas Theater Center