Review | A Shakespeare riff that swaps in singing cowboys for severed heads
Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” has plenty to recommend it: stirring speeches about the nobility of mercy, still-resonant themes of government overreach in the morality department. But despite its vaguely nonsensical, pseudo-happy ending, “Measure” is pretty dour; few would put the genre-defying “problem play” on a list of the Bard’s most uproarious comedies. But everyone’s having … Read more