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Like many 4-year-old girls, Lucy -- the protagonist of Noah Haidle's dark comedy -- has an imaginary friend. Unlike most imaginary friends, Mr. Marmalade happens to have a cocaine addiction, a drinking problem, and a temper. Mr. Marmalade is a savage black comedy about what it takes to grow up in these difficult times. Learn more...

Custom Made Theatre Company presents Carson Kreitzer's The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer. This dazzling, award-winning play blends history, fantasy, and speculation to explore the conflicted life and controversial career of Oppenheimer, the Berkeley professor who created the atomic bomb as the director of the Manhattan Project, only to crusade against it after World War II ended. Learn more...

From Edward Albee, writer of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, comes the Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance, performed by Custom Made Theatre Co. Agnes and Tobias seem to live a quiet life, even with Agnes' alcoholic sister making an occasional scene. But when their best friends arrive unannounced and lock themselves upstairs with no intention of leaving, the delicate balance of their family begins to unravel. Learn more...

Custom Made Theatre Company's third annual showcase of short plays by absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett includes the critically-acclaimed Come and Go, the minimalist Footfalls, and the bleak but funny Rough for Theatre I. Learn more...

The Custom Made Theatre Company presents two comedic plays by the master of comic angst, Woody Allen. Both set in New York, the city he knows so well, Woody has crafted two hilarious stories of infidelity, reality and the desperate attempt to find identity. Learn more...

See what happens when David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, John Guare and Spalding Grey (among others) get their hands on the master of the short story, Anton Chekhov. This eclectic night of theater runs the gambit of styles from Chekhovian melodrama to hilarious fractured fairy tales. Learn more...

From the Tony-winning creator of Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee comes a truly adult musical about trust, forgiveness and frog hallucinations. Based on his true-life brush with death, William Finn's sung-through story is equally funny and touching. Learn more...

Oscar, a typical slovenly bachelor, is living in his beautifully decorated, but now trashed, apartment since his wife left him. Felix, a compulsive neat-freak, has also just been dumped by his spouse. Thinking the company would do him good, not to mention the rent reduction, Oscar invites Felix to live with him...and so begins one of theatre's most famous marriages. Learn more...

Custom Made Theatre Co. performs The Book of Liz, a play written by David Sedaris (NPR, Me Talk Pretty One Day) and his sister Amy Sedaris (Comedy Central's Strangers With Candy). It's a wacky and outrageous parable about the adventures of Sister Elizabeth Donderstock, a devoted maker of cheese balls who takes a job as a waitress. Learn more...

Playwright Tony Kushner's follow-up to the classic Angels in America, Slavs! Thinking about the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness is set in Russia during the last years of the Soviet empire. Along the way, we encounter leaping Bolsheviks, drunken lesbians, wandering children and even a Babushka or two. Custom Made Theatre Co. presents a unique cross-gendered production of this brilliantly funny, timelessly sad story. Learn more...

The Custom Made Theatre Company presents its annual workshop Beckett in Winter. This year's edition features Samuel Beckett's brilliant short play Rockaby; his last play, What Where; and the traditional Ohio Impromptu. Learn more...

Mark Eisman's Dodo for President is a funny, quirky and touching look at friendships, presidential campaigns and an incriminating peach sweater. The story involves a lunch lady named Candy, who leads a cast of quirky characters on a cross-country van trip to visit her old friend from summer camp, who is running for President. Learn more...