MITF to Present Mary Jane Wells' Play 'Transit'

The Midtown International Theater Festival will present Transit. Performances will be at Stage Left Studio, 438 West 37th Street, 5-A, and will begin on Thursday, July 26th, continuing through Sunday, August 5th.

The play follows a girl, played by Wells, in "her search for God: from an epiphany on Charles Street in Boston to a Houston Street Howard Johnson's, with stops in Appalachia and Kansas City.  'I come from the do it yourself generation,' she writes on her MySpace page (where she has attracted close to 3,000 friends), 'coming of age after World War II - if you needed something - a new dress - adding a room for a baby - you did it yourself because everybody else was too busy to help. That has stood me in good stead during my life. When problems beset me, I looked inside myself for answers. How to balance my own desires with my responsibilities to my family. Taking care of my mother during her decline and death, struggling with my husband about home and career, worrying about my son's growing up and finally discovering the solution lay in understanding that whatever I wanted to do, I had to do myself. Looking back on it all now I take it all with a grain of salt. My struggles and travails amuse me; after all, I made it this far didn't I? So that's what Transit is about, surviving the blizzard of my life. I hope you'll come and see me talk about it some evening.'"

Mary Jane Wells is an actress, producer and director who has played many roles over the course of her long career in show business. Theater credits include Taxicab Chronicles (alongside future Broadway star Laura Bell Bundy); Jigsaws at the Samuel Beckett Theatre; The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks, written and directed by Romulus Linney for the Signature Theatre; and Hot L Baltimore and Passage at the American Globe Theatre. She has performed extensively in regional theatre and TV credits include "Sex and the City," "Sesame Street" and "One Life to Live."

Transit will begin performances on Thursday, July 26th and will continue through Sunday, August 5th.

Tickets are $18 and may be purchased by calling Smarttix at (212) 868-4444, or online at www.maryjanewells.com.