In the play “ Queens ,” which opens at Manhattan Theater Club on Wednesday, undocumented New Yorkers lament raids at factories and construction sites. Ukrainians yearn to leave an increasingly dangerous country. And immigrant mothers wonder if they should return to their countries of origin after years in the United States.

Despite its ripped-from-the-headlines quality, “Queens” is not set in the present-day: A previous iteration premiered in 2018 at Lincoln Center’s Clair Tow Theater. That same year, its playwright Martyna Majok won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Cost of Living,” which also ran at Manhattan Theater Club. When the creative team at MTC commissioned a new play, Majok proposed revisiting “Queens.”

“I felt haunted by the women,” she said. “I felt like I hadn’t done right by t

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