{"id":135106,"date":"2026-03-11T04:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135106\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:20:06","slug":"5-things-to-do-week-of-march-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/135106\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things to do, week of March 11, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare in Scranton<\/p>\n<p>The community theater group Actors Circle presents William Shakespeare\u2019s comedy \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d at Providence Playhouse in Scranton on Thursday through Sunday and again the following weekend. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actorscirclescranton.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">actorscirclescranton.com<\/a> or Facebook for ticket prices and times.<\/p>\n<p>Mauch Chunk Opera House is busy<\/p>\n<p>The Mauch Chunk Opera House in Jim Thorpe has three days of music suitable for St. Patrick\u2019s Day. Kathleen Parks is on stage Thursday. The fiddler and singer-songwriter plays many genres and has a grounding in Celtic and American roots music. It\u2019s the Kilmaine Saints\u2019 Celtic rock on Friday and the Tartan Terrors with rock music and step dance on Saturday. See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcohjt.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mcohjt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>St. Patrick\u2019s Day parties at the Mines Nightclub in Wilkes-Barre<\/p>\n<p>The Mines Nightclub in Wilkes-Barre is throwing two St. Patrick\u2019s Day parties this week, on Thursday and Saturday, with doors opening at 9 p.m. both nights. On Thursday, DJ VENOM X will play and only those age 18 and up with a valid college, trade school or military ID and proof of age will be admitted. On Saturday it is open to all, age 18 and up, and will feature a bagpipe band at 10:30 p.m. The Mines will stretch out the St. Patrick\u2019s season with an event on March 19. 105 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d night in Scranton Friday<\/p>\n<p>There is a \u201cHeated Rivalry Rave\u201d at the Ritz on Friday, celebrating the hot hockey gay love story with dancing, a photo booth, giveaways and more. Age 18 plus, with ID. The doors open at 8 p.m. and the event starts at 9. 222 Wyoming Ave., Scranton. Ticket link at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theritztheater.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">theritztheater.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Shamrock Shindig in Pottsville<\/p>\n<p>The Shamrock Shindig at Hucklebucks on Saturday features the Backroad Burners, Margie Trick and Gleasons Drift. Doors open at 2 p.m. and the music starts at 3. 114 E. Norwegian St., Pottsville. There will be more music on St. Patrick\u2019s Day itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shakespeare in Scranton The community theater group Actors Circle presents William Shakespeare\u2019s comedy \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\u201d at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5523,52731,201,182,803,28,231,178,180,179,289,2685],"class_list":{"0":"post-135106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-carbon-county","9":"tag-jim-thorpe","10":"tag-lackawanna-county","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-luzerne-county","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-schuylkill-county","15":"tag-scranton","16":"tag-scranton-headlines","17":"tag-scranton-news","18":"tag-things-to-do","19":"tag-wilkes-barre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}