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  • Jack Levine:
    26 Sep. 2020
    I read this play and was truly moved by it. I had to read it a second time only because the play is so powerful. Philip Middleton Williams has written about things lost, things found - life with deep feelings. You will absolutely be captivated with the strong character relationships.
  • Cindi Sansone-Braff:
    14 Aug. 2020
    A moving, short memory play about love, loss, longing, and death. Beautifully written, passionate, funny at times, and then painfully tender the next moment. Anyone who has done “the-love-lost-and-found-and-lost-again saga” can relate to this heart-wrenching play, which proves: Death ends a life, but not a relationship. Philip, thanks for writing this.
  • Nelson Diaz-Marcano:
    8 May. 2020
    As I write my own personal piece, I can’t help but to be inspired to dig deeper, motivated to open wider, and safe doing so because of what Philip has done with the his play. Beautiful, heartbreaking, and reflective, this is a gorgeous short that will stay with you for a long time
  • Scott Sickles:
    25 Apr. 2020
    What a beautiful eulogy.
    Time capsule.
    Memoir.
    Love letter.

    I generally dislike plays that tell us they are plays. The stakes and my interest plummet unless the piece immediately convinces me this device is necessary. Fortunately, Williams does that and never relents. The memories are urgent, important steps on a difficult journey! The air must be cleared now!

    This play is goodbye. A once-and-for-all final goodbye to the love of his life. As final as it can be. By the end, Philip, the character and author, has bid farewell to Allen's life while lovingly embracing his memory. Heartbreaking.
  • Julie Zaffarano:
    12 Apr. 2020
    Oh, my heart. Philip Middleton Williams’ “A Tree Grows in Longmont” is a beautiful story of love and regret. An honest telling that does not over-analyze, but leaves the audience knowing that love may not be perfect, but it is forever.
  • Larry Rinkel:
    10 Apr. 2020
    It is very hard to bring off a play that relies almost totally on exposition, but somehow Williams has done it here. I'm not sure how - perhaps the elegiac tone, perhaps the vignettes representing the sometimes tormented and sometimes devoted relationship between the older and younger man, perhaps the sympathetic but unsparing characterizations of both - but the description as a "memory play" and a tribute to someone now lost is touching, involving, and emotionally true.
  • Eytan Deray:
    6 Apr. 2020
    If Tennesee Williams and Terrence McNally had a theatrical love child, it would be "A Tree Grows in Longmont". This is a touching, deeply emotional tribute and a smart memory play, filled with Philip Middleton Williams' very evident heart and soul.
  • Maximillian Gill:
    6 Mar. 2020
    A simply beautiful short play. The relationship at the heart is real, tender, and wonderfully rendered through memories of both big moments and small ones. The bond between the two characters is at the same time real and touchingly romantic. I am impressed by Williams’s natural feel for the dialogue of two people who understand each other deeply but who all too often fail to really understand each other.
  • DC Cathro:
    29 Jan. 2020
    A moving and emotional tribute, beautifully told and heartbreakingly real.
  • Rand Higbee:
    13 Jan. 2020
    A very lovely very heartfelt piece by Philip Middleton Williams. Anyone who has lived life for a while will see and recognize the happiness and sorrow, not to mention the honesty, within it.

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