All My Sons is Arthur Miller's searing drama about Joe Keller, a manufacturer whose wartime decision to ship a batch of cracked cylinder heads for military aircraft, in order to protect his business, resulted in the deaths of twenty-one pilots, a crime for which his business partner alone took the blame and went to prison. Years later, the Keller family's fragile peace is disturbed when their son's former sweetheart, the daughter of the imprisoned partner, comes to visit, reigniting old grief over the disappearance of the Kellers' other son, a pilot missing since the war. As long-buried truths surface, Joe's carefully maintained denial collapses under the weight of his family's demand for honesty and his own conscience. Miller uses the intimate setting of a single backyard to interrogate larger questions of capitalism, wartime profiteering, and moral responsibility to a community beyond one's immediate family. The play's devastating final revelations and its indictment of self-interested rationalization established Miller as one of America's foremost dramatists and remain as powerful today as at its 1947 premiere.

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