In a telling moment in “A Nice Indian Boy,” the funny but creaky and rarely surprising comedy at Olney Theatre Center, a long-married Indian American woman is asked about her love for her husband.

Lynette Rathnam and Joel Ashur in Idris Goodwin's “Bars and Measures,” directed by Reginald L. Douglas for Mosaic Theater Company. (Chris Banks) Review by Peter Marks Seeing back-to-back plays ...