After this feint toward the theatrical past, Schmidt’s play reveals itself as a modern-day domestic farce about artists and their egos: Linklater is Ben, a filmmaker consumed by his own process as well as his new actress, the naïf-fatale Julie (Madeline Brewer), a spacily self-dramatizing American temptress who affects a (variable, much-mocked) British accent. The Tony Award-winning Silverman is Mira, a gifted novelist and Ben’s patient, capable wife of 20 years who feels she has always come second to her husband’s more splendid career. Mira alone seems to worry about their daughter, Dolly (Anna Mirodin), and she seems determined to keep their marriage intact. “Don’t throw out what you have,” Mira tells him, referring both to a monologue in his script and their life together.