This play is so much fun that it’s only at the end that I realized it hadn’t gone anywhere.

In Michelle Deines’s script, a desperate artistic director, a tough theatre critic, and a young ingénue actress come together in several overlapping configurations, though it takes a while to tease them all out. There’s some satisfaction in that, but I longed for a more clearly defined central conflict.

Deines writes terrific dialogue, though; her AD fires off many a line guaranteed to draw guffaws from local theatre insiders, like “We’ll still be here, begging our friends to buy 50-50 tickets at a fundraiser at the Russian Hall.” Under Evan Frayne’s direction, Barbara Tomasic, Lisa Goebel, and especially Alison Kelly nail the script’s comic rhythms. Worth seeing.