Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
The Midtown International Theater
Festival Presents
May
30, 2007
The Midtown
International Theater Festival will present the 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.
TRANSIT follows a white girl
(Mary Jane 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. Regional credits include The Virginia Stage Company,
the GeVa Theatre, Stamford Theatre Works, Pennsylvania Stage Company and major
roles at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Dorset Theatre Festival,
Missouri Rep, Theatre 3 in Dallas, Cincinnati Playhouse and the Cleveland
Playhouse. Television viewers remember her as Mrs. Healey in SEX IN THE CITY
for HBO, and a rollerblading Grandma for SESAME STREET, as well as appearances
on the soap operas ONE LIFE TO LIVE, ALL MY CHILDREN, AS THE WORLD TURNS and
GUIDING LIGHT. She also directed and helped produce THE BRINI MAXWELL SHOW on
Channel 35 with her son Ben Sander. She lives in SOHO with her husband Peter
Sander who teaches at the Hofstra University Department of Drama and Dance.
TRANSIT will begin
performances on Thursday, July 26th and will continue through
Sunday, August 5th. The
schedule will be as follows:
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Mo |
Tu |
Wed |
Thu |
Fr |
Sa |
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26 8:30pm |
27 |
28 8:15pm |
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29 |
30 |
31 |
1 |
2 |
3 8:30pm |
4 1:30pm |
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5 4:00pm |
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Tickets are
$18 and may be purchased by calling Smarttix at (212) 868-4444, or online at
www.maryjanewells.com.
Transit
Written and Performed by Mary
Jane Wells
Directed by Ben Sander
Stage Left Studio, 438 West
37th Street, 5-A
Thursday, July 26th
Through Sunday, August 5th
Thursday July 26th
at 8:30pm, Saturday July 28th at 8:15pm, Friday August 3rd
at 8:30pm, Saturday August 4th at 1:30pm and Sunday August 5th
at 4:00pm
TICKETS: $18.00 ($15 students/seniors); Call (212)
868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com
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