3/27/05 - 4/3/05

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— Old friends Charles Busch and Julie Halston (and a flurry of guest stars) are Together on Broadway for a special one-night-only benefit performance for the Actors' Fund of America at the Music Box Theatre. Included is a 20th anniversary performance of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, the off-Broadway sensation that brought them together.

— Paula Vogel's Hot 'N' Throbbing, featuring Lisa Emery as a woman who writes erotic screenplays to support her kids, opens at Signature Theatre's Peter Norton Space.

— Hairspray star Shayna Steele, who's been one of that show's stand-out, belt-out Dynamites since opening night, performs an evening of her killer original tunes at Joe's Pub at 7PM.

— A comedy about the making of Gone with the Wind, Moonlight and Magnolias opens at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage I. Real-life Hollywood figures like David O. Selznick and Victor Fleming count as characters and the cast includes Matthew Arkin, David Rasche and Douglas Sills.

— Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives, which imagines a tense meeting between the mother of a monstrous dictator and an eye doctor, opens at off-Broadway's 59E59. L. Scott Caldwell and Vivienne Benesch star.

— After an acclaimed production off-Broadway, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt opens at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, featuring Cherry Jones as a Bronx nun who wages a moral war on a priest (2004 Tony winner Brían F. O'Byrne) she suspects of foul play.

— Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, featuring Dennis Boutsikaris as the famed painter and Jill Eikenberry as a mysterious interrogator, starts previews at Manhattan Theater Club's Stage II. John Tillinger directs.

— The Encores! concert staging of Purlie, starring Blair Underwood and 2004 Tony winner Anika Noni Rose (Caroline, or Change), starts performances at City Center and plays through Sunday.

— The Transport Group production of The Audience, a new musical that turns the spotlight onto theatergoers watching a Broadway musical, starts performances at off-Broadway's Connelly Theatre.

— Stephen Sondheim's Passion airs at 8PM on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center. Directed by Lonny Price, the cast includes Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris and Audra McDonald.

— Theatre for a New Audience's production of Souls of Naples, concerning a haunted house in 1940s Italy, starts performances at The Duke on 42nd Street. John Turturro, Aida Turturro, Didi Conn and Max Casella star.

— Denzel Washington opens in Broadway's first production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in 50 years. Also included in the company are William Sadler, Colm Feore, Jessica Hecht, Tamara Tunie, Eamonn Walker and Jack Willis.

— Kieran Culkin and Anna Paquin play their final performance in Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley at off-Broadway's Vineyeard Theatre.

— The Last Days of Judas Iscariot closes at the Public Theatre off-Broadway. Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, the drama re-examines the plight of the Bible's most infamous sinner.