“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at Westminster Community Playhouse

Would you answer a stranger’s phone? And how far would you go once you do? These questions ring through this Obie Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist play.

From Left: Eric Parmer, Sarah Hoven and Mia Josimovic. Photo courtesy of Westminster Community Playhouse.

By MaryAnn DiPietro

A cell phone rings. No one answers. Its owner is dead.

A flash of modern anxiety, a device demanding attention. That is what sets the story in motion. “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” Sarah Ruhl’s haunting and unexpectedly funny examination of grief connection, and the strange ways technology dictates human interaction, opens at Westminster Community Playhouse this January. “We’re in a moment where grief is a constant feeling,” says director Chloe King, “while at the same time, we’re incredibly disconnected from one another. This play lives right in that space, which makes it feel very relevant right now.”

King, a director and choreographer who earned her master’s degree in...

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