Jean isn’t a nerd, and she’s no dud—she’s simply… there. Until she answers a dead man’s ringing cell phone. That single act hurls her into a whirlwind of eccentric relatives, a drunken widow, a ...

I wasn’t interested in the discussion about the uses and abuses of cell phones in Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone. To begin with, the theme is dated. Most people don’t use their phones to talk ...

A dark comedy about an overreliance on some ubiquitous technology will open the season for West Texas A&M University Theatre. Students will stage “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl at 7:30 p.m.

Its life on the line. In a quiet caf an unsuspecting young woman, irked by an insistently ringing cell phone, discovers that its owner is, in fact, dead. In an impulsive move, she decides to answer ...