July 25, 2020: Performance of Howells’s The Smoking Car

Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse Presents

The perils of doing a good deed The Smoking Car by William Dean Howells Saturday, July 25 8 pm Mr. Roberts is entrusted with a priceless package by a stranger on his train: her infant child. She is particularly anxious, and her tale is not particularly convincing, but he’s barely paying attention. What could possibly go wrong. In the Rail Car Series of WD Howells’s plays (such as The Parlor Car, read on May 9), AND an Edward Roberts/Willis Campbell story–a series in which Howells developed his trenchant satire– The Smoking Car is a light-hearted alert to the dangers of coming to the aid of a fellow human being. Lest we forget! Watch by Zoom or YouTube or or tune in to WBAI Radio 99.5 FM Directed by John Long featuring Howard Pinhasik Marlaina Powell Jennifer Reddish Hannah Sharafian Blaine Smith

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