Tom Hiddleston is going from the Avengers to adultery.

The British actor, best known as the villainous Loki in a slew of Marvel superhero films, is coming to Broadway to star in a revival of Harold Pinter’s classic “Betrayal.”

The show, directed by Jamie Lloyd, had a successful run earlier this year in the West End. Writing in The New York Times, the critic Matt Wolf said the production “represents a benchmark achievement for everyone involved, and shows Pinter’s 1978 play in a revealing, even radical, new light.”

Mr. Lloyd, who has emerged as a devoted contemporary interpreter of the playwright’s work, called it Pinter’s “great masterpiece,” and said that it made sense to revisit it now, a decade after his death.

“It absolutely honors his words, but it gets rid of any circumstantial detail — it’s a very stark, stripped-down production,” he said.