Three Sisters

Pittsburgh City Paper: There is a scene, in the middle of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, in which Vershinin and Masha are alone. The way Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre has staged it, this scene is the sexiest thing I've ever seen on stage. You wouldn't imagine corseted and uniformed Czarist Russians being erotic, especially when nary a boot is removed. But their cat-and-mouse game of seduction is physical, tantalizing and lusty. Oh, Allison McLemore and David Whalen are conspicuously attractive people, but director Harriet Power turns every word and gesture into a titillating double-entendre. It's like watching an Anaïs Nin journal come to life.