A group of women have left their home countries, some of them escaping what they could no longer bear, others searching for those who left before them. From Poland, Belarus, Afghanistan, Syria, and Honduras, they all find themselves living in an illegal basement apartment in Queens, struggling to build new lives in America. When a Ukrainian woman arrives in search of her long-lost mother, she is forced to confront the challenges that the others had to overcome to survive. “It strikes at the heart of the immigrant experience, which is often unfair, one way or another,” wrote Jesse Green in The New York Times, reviewing the play’s 2018 premiere. Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winner Martyna Majok, Queens is now playing Off Broadway under the direction of Trip Cullman. Veep’s Anna Chlumsky and Homeland’s Marin Ireland star. —Jeanne Malle