Maureen Langan News

MPAC celebrates its 30th anniversary season with a diverse lineup of shows, including concerts, theater productions, and family events.

Comic / host Nicky Sunshine (The Nick Cannon Show) brings the monthly Ladies Night Showcase back to Comedy In Harlem on Saturday, February 24th with a lineup featuring: Samantha Santos, Toni Byrd, Maureen Langan and GL Douglas.

Standup comedian / author / conference MC Leighann Lord will be among the performers featured at the “Funny Women Of A Certain Age” (FWOACA) live comedy showcase of “female comics who tell it like it is” – on Monday, July 24, 2023 @ City Winery in Manhattan.

National headliner Steve Mittleman and Bay Area favorites Jeff Applebaum and Maureen Langan highlight two evenings of stand-up comedy at the Bay Area Stage Theatre in Vallejo. 

​​​​​​​The Ladies of Laughter will officially release their first recording Ladies of Laughter From The Friars Club! on March 29st. This marks the first-ever live all women comedy recording from the 119-year old show business fraternal organization that first began allowing women members into its club in 1984.

Emelin Theatre has announced its April 2022 event schedule.

Celebrating the conclusion of its event which attracted thousands of viewers tuning in from all over the world, The Marsh has announced the winning productions from its first-ever digital global festival, MarshStream International Solo Fest, and has extended viewing access through November 1, 2020.

On October 7-11, an astounding array of 56 performers from Scotland, Canada, Russia, and across the United States are (virtually) coming together to take part in The Marsha??s MarshStream International Solo Fest. Acclaimed as the San Francisco Bay Areaa??s a?oebreeding ground for new performance,a?? The Marsh is thrilled to present a wide-ranging festival line-up that includes an internationally renowned Russian stand-up comedian, musicals, a traditional Indian dance piece, clowning, and much more. As added enticement, with the Vice Presidential Debate happening right before the festival kicks off, the October 7th opening will also include a post-debate discussion with The Marsha??s astute comedian/performers Don Reed and Maureen Langan weighing in about the debate. Further details can be found at www.themarsh.org. BroadwayWorld caught up recently with The Marsha??s Artistic Executive Director/Founder Stephanie Weisman, calling in from the Trinity Alps where shea??s been sheltering away from the Bay Area, and Festival Director Maggie Wilson from her home base in Brooklyn.

The Marsh continues to offer a wide variety of new programming at 7:30pm nightly on MarshStream, its popular broadcast platform.

The Marsh announces the line-up for its first-ever digital global festival, MarshStream International Solo Fest, presenting performers aged 16 to 79 from across the nation and around the world, including Russia, Scotland, Israel, Canada, and Australia, as well as some of The Marsh's fan-favorites in a four day online marathon of 51 global works.

As the Bay Area's shelter-in-place continues, The Marsh San Francisco offers a variety of programming at 7:30pm nightly on MarshStream, its popular broadcast platform.

Carolines on Broadway, New York City's premier comedy venue, celebrates the luck of the Irish with St. Patrick's Week Comedy: The All-Irish Show, featuring Katie Boyle, Sean Finnerty, Maureen Langan, Connor Larsen, Ger Staunton, and Colum Tyrrell, on Sunday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. Line-up subject to change without notice.

Back by popular demand, radio host/standup comic Maureen Langan returns to The Marsh San Francisco for a limited engagement of her 2017 smash hit Daughter of a Garbageman. Declared by Theatre Eddys as one of the a?oeTop 3 Shows of 2017,a?? this comedic and moving tale is a?oea one-woman tour-de-force, jam-packed with moments to be relished and remembereda?? (Theatre Eddys). Daughter of a Garbageman follows Langan's 1970s upbringing in New Jersey, in which her Irish Catholic mother and sanitation worker father told her that an education was the road to success. But is that true in today's a?oeReality Star Culture,a?? where salacious sex tapes lead to book deals and reality stars end up president?

Journalist turned comic and radio talk show host Maureen Langan brings her critically acclaimed "one-woman tour-de-force," DAUGHTER OF A GARBAGEMAN, to the PIT LOFT, 154 W. 29th St (b/t 6th & 7th), on March 28th through March 30th at 7:30pm.

Comic and radio talk show host MAUREEN LANGAN brings her critically acclaimed "one woman tour de force," DAUGHTER OF A GARBAGEMAN, to Under St. Marks, 94 St Marks Place in New York City from February 21st to March 4th and to The Pit Loft at 154 W. 29th Street from March 28th to 30th. Tickets to performances at the Frigid Festival are $20, tickets to performances at The Pit Loft are $25.

With the remarks made in the recent State of the Union, there is currently some debate about this administration, the economy, and how it's actually affecting the middle and working class. Now in its 13th year, the always-uncensored FRIGID Festival is exploring just that. From donating a kidney to being sued by the Department of Justice, this festival has you covered. Check out a list of this year's political and money-minded shows:

Now in its thirteenth year, FRIGID is an open and uncensored theatre festival that gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination. In true support of our Indie Theater Community, 100% of box office proceeds will go directly to the artists whose work is being presented. FRIGID is here to chill out the New York independent theatre scene's ideas of what a theatre festival can be!

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.