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This fall (Sept. 29–Oct. 15), the Shakespeare continues when Moorer and PacRep stage a period production of Measure for Measure at the Outdoor Forest Theater. The play follows a duke, a regent, a pimp and a nun around the twisty walks of a morally decaying Vienna. Part comedy of human frailty, part tutorial in human strength, it is a play of folly, seduction and civil discourse.

“It’s about sexual harassment and politicians jumping around from bed to bed. There are pimps, nuns and politicians. It’s very funny,” Moorer says. “It’s one of his hardest to classify because it’s so funny but it tells such a serious story.”

PacRep also stages a ghost story with Shakespearean undertones called Woman in Black Sept. 7-Oct. 1.

“I wouldn’t go too far to try connect it to Shakespeare,” Moorer says. “But there are some quotes—and ultimately all things theatrical owe a nod to Shakespeare.”

Regardless of its Shakespearean connections, Woman in Black, in which an obsessed lawyer engages a skeptical young actor to help him tell the terrifying story of a haunting, is being hailed as one of the truly scariest and most entertaining plays ever written. It’s currently in its 16th year in London’s West End.