Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza opened in 1999 as the Northeastern Pennsylvania Civic Arena and Convention Center, serving the Wilkes-Barre and Scranton metro area as its primary indoor arena. The venue has cycled through naming rights sponsors — First Union, Wachovia, and since 2010, Mohegan Pennsylvania (the nearby casino property) — and is now managed by ASM Global. It seats over 8,000 permanently with concert configurations approaching 10,000. The arena is also home to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League, keeping the building active year-round.
For concerts, the arena books a wide range of major touring acts — the kind of names that fill mid-size arenas across the Northeast, from classic rock and country headliners to pop stars and comedy specials. The venue ranked 65th nationally in total tickets sold in Pollstar’s 2024 mid-year report, moving over 84,000 tickets in a six-month window, and has placed among the top 100 highest-grossing arenas in the United States. The indoor, climate-controlled setting makes it the year-round complement to the seasonal Pavilion at Montage Mountain, ensuring the region has a concert option in every month.
The arena is located at 255 Highland Park Boulevard in Wilkes-Barre Township, adjacent to the Mohegan Pennsylvania casino — a proximity that adds dining, entertainment, and hotel options to the concert experience. Parking is plentiful in the surrounding lots. The venue is accessible from I-81 and sits in the same Scranton–Wilkes-Barre corridor as Montage Mountain, roughly three hours from Albany and two from Philadelphia. For cross-border traffic from southern New York, I-81 south through Binghamton is the most direct route.
Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza is the indoor workhorse of northeastern Pennsylvania — the venue that keeps the concert calendar running when the amphitheater season ends. It may not have the setting of Montage Mountain or the character of a historic theater, but it delivers reliable arena-scale shows with strong booking and the convenience of casino-adjacent amenities. For Upstate New Yorkers in the Southern Tier, it is one of the closer arena options outside of New York State.