(AVENEL, NJ) -- Avenel Performing Arts Center presents a comedy night headlined by Maureen Langan, a semifinalist from Season 18 of America's Got Talent, on Saturday, July 11, 2026. The lineup also includes Sandy Ehlers and Brian Balthazar. Showtime is 7:00pm.
Maureen Langan, is an internationally acclaimed standup comedian, broadcaster, Tedx Talk speaker and corporate event host. The audience and judges on America's Got Talent loved her, giving her a standing ovation and four “yeses!”
Maureen’s intelligent and hysterical rants on life’s absurdities make her a hit at clubs, theaters and festivals across the U.S., Canada, U.K, Europe, the Balkans and South Africa.
Tickets range from $49.55-$54.50 and are available for purchase online. Avenel Performing Arts Center is located at 150 Avenel Street in Avenel, New Jersey.
Langan has performed with entertainment, literary and cultural icons that include Robin Williams, Jay Leno, Rosie O’Donnell, Jack Canfield, Joy Behar, Gloria Steinem, Danny Glover and Gladys Knight – and she roasted comedy royalty Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. In addition to America’s Got Talent, her on-screen appearances include, Dry Bar Comedy, Gotham Live, HBO, Red Eye, Comics Unleashed, the Paramount Pictures film Marci X, and many national commercials.
As a broadcaster, Maureen created and hosted Bloomberg Television and Radio’s award-winning entertainment programming, where her most memorable moments were interviewing Joan Rivers and George Carlin. Her astute observations and interviewing style earned her the title of “Best Female Commentator” by the Newswomen’s Club of New York.
Her TEDx Talk, “The Business of Fun,” is inspired by her time performing in South Africa at the first ever Johannesburg International Comedy Festival. Maureen’s message of inclusion had 600 people on their feet when first presented at Monmouth University.
Daughter of a Garbageman is Maureen’s solo show about growing up in New Jersey with five siblings, a strict Irish mother, and a Bronx-born, sanitation worker father. The show had an extended run in Edinburgh, Scotland before making its U.S. debut in San Francisco, where it was hailed as a “one woman tour-de-force.”
About the Opening Acts
Sandy Ehlers is a New Jersey favorite who proudly describes herself as “trashy, brashy, and gassy.” Born and bred in Hoboken, Sandy knows how to weave everyday life into side-splitting stand-up. A twelve-year comedy veteran, she’s commanded stages at New York’s top clubs — from Gotham and Broadway Comedy Club to The Comic Strip — delivering sets that are as big-hearted as they are hilarious.
Brian Balthazar – Television personality and comedian known for The Today Show and Human vs. Hamster on HBO Max.
The Avenel Performing Arts Center (APAC) is a multi-disciplinary performing arts center located in Avenel, New Jersey. Funded by the Woodbridge Arts Alliance, The APAC promises to energize Avenel and surrounding communities by programming exceptional, professional theatre, music, comedy, dance and more.
