{"id":314689,"date":"2026-10-26T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:14:09","slug":"houdini-escaping-scranton-on-display-at-everhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314689\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Houdini: Escaping Scranton\u2019 on display at Everhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with Scranton\u2019s Houdini Museum, the Everhart Museum will present \u201cHoudini: Escaping Scranton,\u201d on view through Nov. 29. The exhibition explores the life and legacy of world-famous magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, with a special focus on his connections to Scranton and Northeastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Marking the 100th anniversary of Houdini\u2019s death on Halloween night in 1926, the exhibition, curated by Dorothy Dietrich of the Houdini Museum and Everhart Museum curator James Lansing, explores his legacy and taps into his enduring association with the holiday\u2019s supernatural themes, despite his lifelong skepticism of claims of communication with the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors will discover Houdini\u2019s early travels through Northeastern Pennsylvania with the Welsh Brothers Circus, including his legendary 1915 escape at Scranton\u2019s Poli Theater, now the site of the Ritz Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Rare artifacts, historical ephemera, photographs, and video footage showcase some of his most memorable performances.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 300px; margin: 5px auto -5px; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793038449_986_slj-article-box-img-1.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 9px 3px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4;\">Local journalism matters, and your support makes it possible. You can help sustain this work by making a donation or choosing one of our subscription options. Subscribers enjoy valuable benefits, including full access to our e-edition, a reduced ad experience on timesleader.com, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Your support helps ensure independent, high-quality local news remains available today and for future generations. Thank you for standing with local journalism.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"slj-article-box-btn\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesleader.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click for subscription offers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; In collaboration with Scranton\u2019s Houdini Museum, the Everhart Museum will present \u201cHoudini: Escaping Scranton,\u201d on view through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-314689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314689","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=314689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}