Saturation of Shakespeare Offers Tough Choices

NYTimes.com: Not all potential theatergoers look to New York’s stages hoping to see singing Mormons or the warbling witches of Oz, and this season, producers would give their horses, if not their kingdoms, for their attention and ticket-buying dollars.
The current theater season has been a veritable snob’s paradise, with Broadway offering four Shakespeare productions, including an acclaimed “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III”; two plays by the Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter; and Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Off Broadway has yielded two incarnations of “Hamlet”; a “Midsummer Night’s Dream” directed by Julie Taymor; and yet another “Twelfth Night” on the way.