Sat. Aug. 18

We've always thought "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" was one of the best-titled plays. How many of us have been in that situtation where everything is just right ... except maybe if your partner did a little more (or less) of ... The play is a comedy-musical written by Joe DiPietro. It has been a long-running off-Broadway success, and  comes to the Loeb Drama Center at the A.R.T. and concludes its run Saturday August 18. It features four Harvard actors, three undergrads and new alumnus Jonas Budris, the oldest at 23. We talked to Budris about it. "It's like a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch meets 'Sex in the City' meets 'Seinfeld,''' he says. Funny? Yes. But "the intent is to make you laugh and smille and then, later, hit you over the head with a sledgehammer." Every actor plays a dozen or so characters - from toddler to senior citizen - and many, many stages of the courtship (and post-courtship) world are explored. Budris - at right in photo - says he has trouble following a certain monologue where a woman has just been divorced and she dissects what went wrong and talks about her new life. "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change," directed by Jon Carpenter, is up at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and there are Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30. Tickets: $12. You can contact the Harvard Box Office at the Holyoke Center at 1350 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge or call 617-496-2222. Web: www.boxoffice.harvard.edu

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