After over three months of being closed, the Grand Theater will once again welcome the community back to the movies as they have announced they will reopen on Friday, June 26th.

In mid-March the Grand Theater, along with all other theaters in Iowa, was ordered to close by Governor Reynolds to stem the spread of COVID-19.  During the mandated shutdown, the theater has undertaken some facility improvements, maintenance projects, and implemented new policies and procedures to safely welcome back patrons.

Several things will be different, including: social distancing while in line for tickets and concessions; one-way traffic into and out of both auditoriums; every other row of seats blocked off and at least three empty seats to the left and right of each individual/party; single use restrooms; multiple hand sanitizing stations; face masks on staff and volunteers; and more frequent cleaning and disinfecting.  

New movie titles won’t be available until at least mid-July, the theater will be showing some older films as well as films that came out within the past year.  For the time being they will be open just four days each week (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday).  Also, more matinees but no late shows on weekends.