EVANSTON, ILLINOIS - Families are invited to put down their cell phones and enjoy The Cell Phone Rings for Thee, the latest production from Evanston Children's Theatre. The show will be staged on Friday, November 20 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, November 21 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Levy Senior Center, located at 300 Dodge Ave. in Evanston. The final performance will take place on Sunday, November 22 at 3 p.m. at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, located at 1655 Foster St. in Evanston.

The Cell Phone Rings for Thee explores the use of "cell phones, Facebook, cutting-edge shopping carts - all of the latest gadgets that bewitch and bedevil us." Children age eight years through 8th grade will perform in this comedic series of seven 10-minute plays: The Cell Phone Rings for Thee; Gary’s Endurance Roast; The Talking Shopping Cart; Un Restaurant; Coulrophobia; Close Shave; and The Morris A. Cockmorton High-School Cafeteria Text Messaging Tragedy. The plays were written by Werner Trieschmann, whose work includes You Have to Serve Somebody, Failing the Improv, Mozart: Revealed, and Schubert: Revealed.

Tickets are $7 and can be purchased in advance or at the door. For more information, please call 847-866-5914.