A play that feels like a good movie at Albany Barn

The romantic comedy "Lonely, I'm Not," receiving an accomplished regional premiere from the young company Creative License, in residence at the Albany Barn, is paced in a way that is jarring at first because its rhythms are much more common to screen than stage.

The use of video and still projections, thematic scene titles ("Caffeine," "Job interview," "Trainwreck") and a contemporary soundtrack completes the movie feel as we get to know the two main characters, damaged people whose romance we root for even as we fear, this being a post-millennial rom/com, that it may fail.

Busy area actor and Creative License mainstay Ian LaChance plays Porter, who was a 90-hour-a-week Wall Street whiz kid but hasn't worked in four years, since a mortifying breakdown in front of a roomful of Citibank executives.

Weitz builds his characters with measured deployment of details over successive scenes until, with the help of strong performances from the two leads, this production offers a rich, nuanced portrait of specific, wholly realized people in a particular time and place.