New YA deal announced a couple of weeks ago in Pub Marketplace:

Stacey Fedele's JULIET IMMORTAL, the real story of Romeo and Juliet, former lovers, now sworn enemies and immortal warriors for good and evil who wage war for the eternal souls of soul mates throughout time, and ROMEO REDEEMED, to Michelle Poploff at Delacorte, for publication in 2011

There's also Suzanne Selfors' SAVING JULIET:

the story of a reluctant young actress with a bad case of stage fright who is magically transported into Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, where she learns about life, love and dealing with difficult parents,

Let's not forget the Gilligan's Island production of Hamlet. It's been over three decades since I last saw it and I can still hear the Skipper singing Polonius' speech to the Toreador Song like it's playing on a TV set next to me.

I ask to be
Or not to be
That is the question that I ask of me

And also

Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Do not forget
Stay out of debt

Yeah, that's in my head better than the original.

I highly recommended A Double Life by George Cukor

Oooh, that sounds right up my alley and I have not heard of it before. Excellent.

What was the name of the Doctor Who ep with Shakespeare? That was great, with the Doctor and Martha dropping Shakespearean quotes, and Shakespeare saying "That's good--I'll have to borrow that one!"

Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls. Good book

There's also To Be or Not to Be, one of the few Jack Benny movies (and the woeful Mel Brooks remake).

Infinite Jest, I suppose.

and the woeful Mel Brooks remake

Though I have a small soft spot even for that - I saw a short Mel Brooks TV biography right after the remake came out. In one scene, he sat in a screening room and played the bit where he and Anne Bancroft sing "Sweet Georgia Brown" together, and he talked about watching the rushes from the first couple of days of filming and boggling all over again at how gifted and extraordinarily beautiful and elegant she was, and how he'd never known just how great her singing voice was, and how nobody would ever believe someone like her could play the wife of someone like him in a movie. He was just moony over her beauty, and agog at her talent, and awestruck that out of all the people in the world she'd chosen him as her life partner.

What was the name of the Doctor Who ep with Shakespeare? That was great, with the Doctor and Martha dropping Shakespearean quotes, and Shakespeare saying "That's good--I'll have to borrow that one!"

"The Shakespeare Code."

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Wiess College at Rice puts on Hello, Hamlet! every four years. It's a hilarious musical with filked versions of showtunes like "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ophelia?" And Polonius has a song that begins something like this:

Climb every mountain
Cross every sea
Neither a borrower
Nor a lender be

The production they put on while I was there was so great I saw it twice. They included Statler and Waldorf puppets.

Opera and ballet versions of Otello, Romeo & Juliet.

Buffy! We few, we happy few. We band of buggered.

Kiss Me, Kate

A bunch of tween/teen plays:A Midsummer Night's Midterm; Omelette, Chef of Denmark; Romeo & Harriet; Romeo & Winifred; Shakespeare's Inferno; The Taming of Katy Lou; The Taming of LaRue

Prospero's Books