Now running at New World Stages, *The Play That Goes Wrong* is a live comedy built around a doomed attempt to stage a classic whodunit. The fictional troupe tries to hold the plot together as cues misfire, scenery fails, and performers scramble to keep up. New York audiences first encountered it as an import from London’s Mischief Theatre, and its long residence has made it a fixture in the city’s commercial off-Broadway ecosystem. Its sharpest insight is procedural: it treats backstage labor, and its fragility, as the main joke.