"The text does not need to be rewritten/altered for that to happen."
Nothing in the theatre is needed. A production is not needed to begin with. I don't think need is the issue; it is benefit, and who is to say that a show will not benefit from an alteration that has not been seen. I think this over-capitalistic mentality is bad for the theatre.
It is well to remember that Shakespeare flourished a century before the Statute of Anne, and perhaps ironically, may have been the greatest pirate of the literary works of others in the history of the theatre.
