An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Videos
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Dear Evan Hanson
Paramount Theatre (2/4 - 3/22) | |
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The Dance of Death
Steppenwolf (1/29 - 3/22) | |
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Bernadette, The Musical
Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture (2/12 - 3/15) | |
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The Ultimate Cher Show Starring Annika
Raue Center For The Arts (2/7 - 2/7) | |
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Building American Pop
Nichols Concert Hall (4/25 - 4/25) | |
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Sketch Playlist
iO Theater (1/8 - 4/16) | |
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Greenroom Improv
Raue Center For The Arts (5/23 - 5/23) | |
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Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through The Change
Coronado Theatre (5/14 - 5/14) | |
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2026 Night Nation Run - Chicago, IL
Soldier Field (5/30 - 5/30) | |
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