“What if sisters gave themselves permission to act as men do?” That is the central question in Julia May Jonas’s Problems Between Sisters. Written in response to Sam Shepard’s play True West, Jonas replaces the estranged brothers in Shepard’s psychodrama with two dissimilar, quarreling, and pregnant sisters. Rory (Annie Fox), a scam artist, and Jess (Stephanie Janssen), a visual artist, unintentionally overlap at their aunt’s cabin in Vermont. When the disheveled Rory decides she wants to start an art project of her own, the tension between the sisters escalates into a chaos of family baggage. Directed by Sivan Battat, this world premiere is one of five new plays in Jonas’s “All Long True American Stories” cycle, which takes 20th-century white “male-experience” plays from the American canon and reimagines them for other people, especially women. —Jeanne Malle