There have been two Broadway revivals. Debbie Allen received a Tony nomination for her performance in the 1986 production, which won in the category of best reproduction. Frank Rich praised Ms. Allen and the choreography but said Mr. Simon’s script “could still use major surgery.”

A 2005 revival may be best known for the on-again, off-again lead-up to opening night after the star, Christina Applegate, broke a bone in her foot but vowed to go on. Ben Brantley called it a “lukewarm” revival in which the “main course never seems to arrive.”

The Tony-winning actress Sutton Foster starred in an Off Broadway revival in 2016. Ben Brantley called hers an “archetype-shattering performance.”

‘Plaza Suite’ (1968)

Mr. Simon’s next Broadway hit was this omnibus comedy, which tells three separate stories, all set in Suite 719 of the Plaza Hotel, with the leading roles played by the same pair of actors. George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton starred in the original production, which ran a staggering 1,097 performances and was nominated for Tonys for best play, best actress in a play (Ms. Stapleton) and best direction of a play (Mike Nichols). Clive Barnes dubbed it a “laugh machine,” which “after a slow start with the first, warms up with the second and ends with an all-stops-out, grandstand finish with the third.”

Mr. Simon adapted the play into a film version, released a year after the conclusion of its Broadway run, with Arthur Hiller directing. Walter Matthau was cast in the three male leads; his female partners were this time played by three different actresses (Ms. Stapleton, Barbara Harris and Lee Grant). In 1982, HBO broadcast a taped production, shot in front of a live audience, featuring Ms. Grant and Jerry Orbach in the three roles; five years later, CBS aired a new production with Carol Burnett in the three female roles, opposite Hal Holbrook, Dabney Coleman and Richard Crenna. John J. O’Connor called it “a consistently amiable exercise.”

The 1971 film is available for rental or purchase at Amazon Prime Video, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, and YouTube.

‘The Out of Towners’ (1970)

“Plaza Suite” was originally conceived as a quartet of stories, but Mr. Simon determined that its vignette about a Midwestern couple beaten down by the horrors and inconveniences of Gotham was rich enough to warrant a stand-alone treatment — and that it made more sense as screenplay than a stage script. So before he and Arthur Hiller collaborated on “Plaza Suite,” they made this uproarious fish-out-of-water comedy in which George Kellerman (Jack Lemmon) and wife Gwen (Sandy Dennis), visiting the city for a job interview, are subjected to a parade of indignities — lost luggage, hotel reservation errors, a mugging, a kidnapping, and transit, sanitation and taxi strikes — that make them long for their Ohio home.