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Philip Middleton Williams

Recommended by Philip Middleton Williams

  • DON'T VOTE FOR ME by Kerr Lockhart
    9 Jul. 2020
    “ Liberty's Corners is a town I could live in. The people are real, the chili is great, and it has all the charm, quirks, and appeal of genuine life in our country. Kerr Lockhart's story of Kevin and his pursuit to make his town better without selling out is something that would make Frank Capra proud, and told with humor, insight, and honesty that keeps it from being mushy. DON'T VOTE FOR ME is a great read and would be great to see on stage. ”
  • Teaching Professor Langstrom by DC Cathro
    8 Jul. 2020
    “ This is a ballet piece. The dancers move with a grace that moves between delicate and powerful, edging closer to a place that they want to go, but getting there is more enrapturing and anticipatory than what you might think the ending could be. In doing so, DC Cathro has done what every good storyteller and choreographer from Scheherazade to Rod Serling, from Nureyev to Fosse has done: leave us using our imagination and desires to fill out the rest. ”
  • Time Travelers Can Apply Yesterday by John Busser
    2 Jul. 2020
    “ You must have read this. I'm going to tomorrow and I loved it. ”
  • That Moment When ... by Steven G. Martin
    2 Jul. 2020
    “ I held my breath as I read this, hoping that the moment would not be broken, and I got my most fervent wish that these two polar opposites would find a connection. And it's all done with movement like the most graceful ballet. ”
  • I Knew Him by DC Cathro
    1 Jul. 2020
    “ This is a love story told by the one person who can tell it so well. A life is revealed, remembered, honored, and in a beautiful way it will live on. ”
  • Shipbuilding by Scott Sickles
    30 Jun. 2020
    “ I remember learning in Grade 10 Biology that the cells in our body have a certain life span and that over our lifetime they die and are replaced so that at a certain point we are not -- literally -- the same person. This is just one of the takeaways from this taut and intense drama that Scott Sickles has wrought, using a science fiction setting to make us understand ourselves and ask the question: when our cells are replaced, do they remember? And what about our souls? Are they replicated? Read this and wonder. ”
  • The Blushing Groom by Matthew Weaver
    27 Jun. 2020
    “ All this time the world has thought of Matthew Weaver as the master of the short play; stories that snap and move and grab you and hold you for just as long as it takes to tell it and leave you smiling or tearful. Well, now he's done that with a full-length play that has all the unique and joyous trademarks, and he carries you along like a twig in a stream as these two gentle souls find out everything they'd want to know before taking that plunge. This is a thoroughly poignant, joyous, and human story. ”
  • The Pity and the Sorrow (monologue) by D. Lee Miller
    27 Jun. 2020
    “ This is such fun... well, yeah, it's about a fire and destruction and all, but still... D. Lee Miller's stream of conscious is spot-on with the moment and what must be going through the mind as the world goes up in flames. ”
  • How to Tie a Cravat (a monologue) (Playing on the Periphery #2) by Scott Sickles
    27 Jun. 2020
    “ Oh, my... this made me cry, not out of sadness but out of long-lost recognition and memory. I have seen the world through Betram's eyes, I have felt the words he says and wanted to say and said them over and over in my head but never out loud. This harsh reality of a childhood friendship changing course is handled with such control, such class, such intensity, and in the skilled hands of Scott Sickles, it is a true and brutally honest moment. ”
  • ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE (from the MAD FOR MYSTERY Collection) by Vivian Lermond
    27 Jun. 2020
    “ Just when you think it's going in one direction, Vivian Lermond leads you in another. This is wickedly funny in the Hitchcock vein. ”

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