Register-Guard Review
Imaginative and Funny

“ Now playing at Very Little Theatre in a smart, stylish production directed by Patrick Torelle, the show is well-acted, visually dynamic, funny and touching.”

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, author of The Clean House and Eurydice. 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.

"Ruhl's zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in."
- Variety

“… blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving.”
– New York Times

"Dead Man's Cell Phone" Auditions

Auditions for Dead Man's Cell Phone have concluded. Please see our Auditions page for upcoming auditions for other VLT shows!

Show Dates

Box Office opens Friday, June 22. Phone: (541) 344-7751.
Hours: Wed. through Sat. 2:00-5:30 PM and ONE Hour before each performance (7:00 PM, or Sunday Matinees 1:00 PM).

Cast List

Production Staff