←Recommendations of All Together Now

A neat twist on the modern family, Middleton-William's "All Together Now" is a warm comedy – with a few prickly edges – that's really a coming-of-age story in which the usual suspect, ie: the teen-ager, is not the one who comes of age. Wise, funny, and totally winning.

Heartfelt, comedic, and well-developed characters makes Williams’s piece unlike anything I’ve read before. The connection between these characters is heartfelt, and is perfect for any company who wants to put on something unique and riveting!

Lovely, sweet story that unfolds gently with surprising twists. We need this family — flawed, awkward, and loving — in our lives. I didn’t want the play to end, although the ending was perfect.

This is a play about finding, fifteen years later, fatherhood. And it's a lovely surprise for both sides of the equation. Philip Williams knows how to write warm and funny and fine and true. How to blend tears with the best of chuckles.

In this sweet and gentle family drama, precocious teenager Fox turns up at the home of gay dad Paul who never knew his son existed. Complications ensue as to who will bring the boy up, with everyone from Paul's boyfriend Adam to his parents Jim and Dorothy to Fox's mother Julie wanting their say. And Fox wants his say too. There are bumps along the road, but eventually a resolution is achieved on all sides in this pleasingly written play, which makes subtle commentary on what it means to be married, a parent, and a teenager today.

A big family drama in compact form, this 21st century story rightly accepts the new domestic order as the new normal and focuses more on the traditional familial challenges - love, marriage, and children. There's plenty of tension in this play that is wonderfully punctured by humor at all the right times. Very real people in very real circumstances delightfully written in Philip Middleton Williams' signature style that adeptly probes and illuminates intimate relationships - especially between parent and child. A lovely play that's easy to produce.

Well-written, funny, sweet play that celebrates the advances we've made in defining families -- the single mom, the lesbian mom, the two gay dads, and the straight parents - versions of loving ones (onstage) and versions of homophobic ones (left obscene, where they should be -- offstage) -- and it's not all tidy, so it feels quite real.