Measure for Measure at the Old Globe

If you are anywhere near San Diego, do whatever you can to get a ticket to see the Old Globe Theatre's production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. As many of you know, I have been talking and writing about this play for much of my life, trying to restore it to people's appreciation because of the deep and corrupting misreading it has suffered from for over a century. Well, finally there is a production that gets it right. No problem play about it, no "duke of dark corners," no prudish hard-hearted Isabel, no postmodern unhappy ending, no reducing Shakespeare's vision to the level of Lucio's. All that's gone with the wind, thank goodness and the wisdom of director Paul Mullins. Instead we have the Measure for Measure Shakespeare wrote and meant, and the one which I have been longing to see for lo these many years. See it if you can.