If you’re a veteran theatergoer lamenting the absence of good, old-fashioned love stories on Broadway, hope has arrived. Left on Tenth—the new play by Delia Ephron, the playwright and sister of beloved writer-director Nora Ephron—is funny, touching, intelligently written, beautifully acted, deeply personal in every detail yet widely universal in concept. It’s at the New York theater named after James Earl Jones, the catch in your throat and the tears it will put in your eyes will be genuine because every word of it is true, and I honestly don’t know what you’re waiting for.

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Still mourning the loss of Nora, her sibling and mentor who died at 71 in 2012, Delia was doubly unhinged when writer Jerome Kass, her husband for three decades, died four years later and left her alone in their flat on Tenth Street. Both of them taught her the value of humor in her writing (among other things, Delia co-authored........

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