Parents' Evening

Bathsheba Doran's portrait of matrimony and acrimony features two sour, whiny characters, whose stream of conversation is perpetually clotted with complaint. James Waterston plays a combative and hypercritical would-be novelist; Julianne Nicholson is his workaholic, passive-aggressive wife. He spouts self-pity, she frowns blankly, and their mutual annoyance is contagious.—Adam Feldman