THEATER
TUESDAY - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 - 21, 2018
7:30 TUESDAY - SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Pushkin Theater/Cheek by Jowl
Next Wave Festival
BAM Harvey Theater
651 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$35-$105
https://www.bam.org/theater/2018/measure-for-measure

Shakespeare's "problem play" about authoritarianism and sexual hypocrisy in government gets done more and more these days.  Wonder why?  Cheek by Jowl does remarkably communicative and gripping stripped-down productions of classics.  Moscow's Pushkin Theater knows something about authoritarianism themselves.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  No. 7 serves New American that seems like it's simple until you taste it.