Hall leaves mortuary for off-Broadway

Michael C. Hall, an Emmy nominee for his work as mortician David Fisher in HBO’s just-ended series “Six Feet Under,” has traded one offbeat role for another.

Hall, who was starring on Broadway as the Emcee in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of “Cabaret” in 2000 when he was cast in the pay cable show, will return to the stage in the disturbing title role in Roundabout’s New York premiere of Noah Haidle’s dark comedy “Mr. Marmalade,” about a child and her unwholesome imaginary friend.

Previews begin Nov. 1 at the off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre. Haidle’s play, commissioned and originally produced by South Coast Repertory in 2004, will be helmed by former La Jolla Playhouse artistic director Michael Greif.

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Lynne Heffley