First to read was an actor whom they had liked in an Off Off Broadway production of "Measure for Measure".
He had been cast, in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Measure for Measure," as Angelo, the unlikable but morally complicated antagonist.
After seeing a 2001 production of "Measure for Measure" in Central Park, he said, he was inspired to reread most of the plays.
Project 400 had long been considering a production of "Measure for Measure," whose plot involves an attempt to rid Vienna of its prostitutes and immoral citizens.
He had seen John Gielgud as Angelo in Peter Brook's 1950 Stratford-upon-Avon production of Measure for Measure, "and suddenly knew what I wanted to do".
Years ago, one of my daughters was in a New York production of "Measure for Measure," and I went once a week during the run.
Kenneth Branagh remembers seeing the RSC's 1978 production of Measure for Measure: "I understood how crystal clear this ancient language could be... it was a formative moment".
We're putting up 50% backing for a production of "Measure for Measure," a script which has been kicking around the Leland Hayward office for several years.
The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's handsome new production of "Measure for Measure," now at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater, is ultimately very amusing.
In the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of "Measure for Measure" last month in Central Park, Ms. Lathan donned the habit of Isabella, the novice nun who declines to stop her brother's execution at the price of her own chastity.
Another production of "Measure for Measure," along with "Romeo and Juliet" and "Much Ado About Nothing," is to be presented in the wooden replica of the Globe on the South Bank from (respectively) June 18, May 7 and May 23.
