Usually, it’s just Facebook friends that linger on for months or even years after they checkout.

“Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Rachel Williams, makes it clear that dying is not so simple if a stranger picks up your cell phone after you have croaked.

This play might cause you to question your connected lifestyle. To wonder if your so-called friends would ever call you if they hadn’t heard from you in while. Maybe you will think about your relationship with Mom—is she really proud of you?

An innovative and provocative production of “Everybody” by Muhlenberg College Theatre and Dance looks at mortality with cheeky humor and asks the audience to reflect on their lives as well.

Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ contemporary reimagining of the 15th-century morality play “Everyman,” is at Muhlenberg’s Studio Theatre, Trexler Pavilion for Theatre and Dance, 2400 Chew St., Allentown through March 1.

Cedar Crest College Department of Performing Arts delivers a frenetically funny “Puffs” in the laugh-a-minute satires inspired by Harry Potter.
“Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic” runs through Feb. 22 at Samuels Theater, Cedar Crest College, 100 College Drive, Allentown.

Act 1 DeSales University Theater has staged a thought-provoking and haunting production of Eugène Ionesco's absurdist comedy “Rhinoceros.”
Unsettling and discomforting, the compelling play that uses a community transforming into rhinoceroses as a metaphor for people turning to fascism, resonates today.