FAMILY HISTORY PLAYWRIGHT TOM DUDZICK ONCE AGAIN RELIED ON HIS LIFE WHEN WRITING `KING O' THE MOON'.(PREVIEW)

Byline: MICHAEL ECKSpecial to the Times Union

Buffalo-born playwright Tom Dudzick is making a good living off his childhood, whether his mother likes it or not.

Dudzick has turned his memories of the family kitchen table, Catholic school and his father's bar into the semiautobiographical comic piece ``Over The Tavern.''

The second installment, ``King o' The Moon,'' opens this week at Albany's Capital Repertory Theatre, just as Dudzick is preparing the still-untitled third play for Studio Arena, the Buffalo theater that commissioned the trilogy.

``I actually have a name (for the final chapter),'' Dudzick said sheepishly by phone last week, …