This Wide Night

Chloë Moss's bitter, swift two-hander is an extraordinarily deft postprison drama—in which ex-cellmates reunite and find solace in each other—that finds new and delicate tints in the social-realist murk. While Moss paints in watercolor, director Anne Kauffman does her work in charcoal, drawing urgent, dark characters of Alison Pill’s jittery Marie and Edie Falco’s desperate Lorraine. Together they make a strangely clownish double act: Beckett characters with rap sheets.—Helen Shaw