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Temporarily closed for renovation Theatre We advertise on Mondays or Tuesdays for that Friday.
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Shows Wednesday-Saturday at 7:00 pm
Sundays at 4:30 pm
Closed Monday & Tuesdays
We book our movies on Mondays for Fridays.

03/27/2026

🎉 ONE LAST HOORAH! Let’s make it happen, Ogallala! 🎉

This Saturday, March 28th, we’re hosting a HUGE cleaning & painting event at Prairie Theatre—and we need YOU!

The Theatre has been getting so many requests from local schools and daycares for end-of-year field trip movies, plus tons of interest in birthday parties… 😍🎥🍿
Now it’s time to bring it all to life for our kids!

📌 Here’s the goal:
We need at least 20 community members to join us from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
If we hit that number, we can OPEN FOR KIDS BY APRIL and get one step closer to opening to the public this summer! 🙌

🌮 Bonus!
Taqueria La Villita will be serving at
Second Chapter Brewing from 12–7 PM, and volunteers will receive 10% off coupons courtesy of Prairie Theatre!

💪 Bring your energy, your friends, and your community spirit—this is how we make something amazing happen for our kids!

👉 Comment below if you can make it
👉 Share this post far and wide

Saturday, March 28th | 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

🎬 Only together can we start showing movies again! 🍿✨

03/15/2026

🎉One last HOORAH! Saturday March 28th we are hosting a HUGE cleaning and painting event! We have been asked by local schools and day cares if we will be showing end of the school year movies for class field trips and we have had dozens of people ask about birthday parties!

Come on! 😍 Let's make this happen for the kids! We are so grateful that the Ogallala Rotary Club has volunteered to come and and help clean floors of the North auditorium so the children of our community can celebrate the end of the school year and for kids to experience private movies for their birthdays!

📌But we still need at least 20 community members to show up from 9am-2pm. If that happens we can do it! We can open up for the kids by April! And that puts us one step closer to being open to the public this summer!

🌮 taqueria la villita will be at Second Chapter Brewing from noon - 7pm and will be accepting coupons that Prairie Theatre will hand out to volunteers for 10% off their orders!

Share this wide and let us know in the comments if you can make it! Saturday March 28th from 9-2pm

Only together can we start showing movies! 🎥🍿

02/28/2026

😍😍Things are REALLY coming together at Prairie Theatre! We are so grateful for your donations!

A friendly reminder that tomorrow Saturday February 28th from 10am-4pm volunteers will be meeting to FINISH painting 🧑‍🎨 and cleaning 🧽🫧 and we need 🫵you🫵 😁😁

We are looking for amateur painters, expert cleaners, NOT experts with good knees, and people to help move scaffolding! You do not to have all of these attributes 😆 some or none of these will do 😆 you can just come and cheer us on or bring us snacks!! 🥳👏🥳

Depending on how many people come we may need a couple extra rollers or paint trays otherwise we got you covered! Wear some clothes and shoes you don't mind getting dirty!

See you at the movies!!

02/24/2026

You know what's awesome??! 🥳Our volunteers!! 🥳 You know what's not?! 😭 Working alone 😭😅 pictured is me, a board member, here of my own free will, so don't feel sorry for me 😂

We understand that time is a VALUABLE asset that nobody has much of 🩷 and each of our board members get phone calls and messages each week asking when Prairie Theatre will start showing movies and the answer is this - the fun stuff can't happen until the hard work is done 😫😅😅

The Prairie Theater is no longer a privately owned theater we are COMPLETELY volunteer run. We have about 130 volunteers on stand by waiting to serve concessions and tickets 🎉👏👏🎉 thank God! We have about 20 high schoolers doing heavy lifting when needed 🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♂️💪 YAAS! We have about half a dozen folks (volunteers, not board members) carrying the load of painting, cleaning, sanding, scrapping gum, stripping floors, scrubbing floors, mending seats, taking down wall paper - these folks are putting in ⏳HOURS⏳ and we are SO grateful!

We understand not everyone is able to do these tasks 🤩 so we have a couple different types of ways you can help!

Option 1️⃣ Bring a buddy to the theater this Wednesday from 9-4 or anytime in between and help us paint and clean! Saturday from 10am-4pm bring those teenagers with strong knees to help clean the floors 🤣 they can do it! 😍 Seriously bring friends 😉

Option2️⃣ In the comments is a list of things we need. Yes we have some supplies but little things like these add up and a nickel and dime here and there cuts into the beauty of our new theater. Plus we know you are looking for ways to help 😃 thank you! Some of these are big asks to BORROW so please if you are inclined to lend thoroughly mark your items with name and phone number! We appreciate you!!

Option 3️⃣ Cash donations. It doesn't have to be much. If you are able to, we appreciate it! $5 here and there will help buy paint or buy/rent supplies we don't have.

Cash donations can be made at Sandhills State Bank and material donations can be dropped off at the theater. Please note that there are amounts to some of the items if you have 2 scrubber mops you can bring please write it in the comments that you will bring 2 the theater doesn't need to figure out where to take 20 mops when all is said and done 🤣

You guys are awesome!
See you at the movies - soon!

02/20/2026

Our volunteers are THE BEST! If you are wanting to help move Prairie Theatre to its next phases we are looking for volunteers this Saturday starting at 10AM and Wednesday starting at 9AM! We need help painting, staining and cleaning floors! It will be a work at your own pace come and go as you can kind of day, be prepared to help each other and jump in where you can! If you have an extra scrub tool bring it along if you would like and something to protect your knees and hands as we will be cleaning the theater floors between the seats! Fun times 😆

We are so grateful to Sarah and Mary pictured here for the prep the are so dedicated and we wouldn't be this far without them!! We have so many volunteers to thank!

02/15/2026

Barb, Betsy and I are at Prairie Theatre serving delicious movie theater popcorn until 730! Free will donations accepted to help renovate the theater!!

02/13/2026

Valentine's Day 💘 is this Saturday and Prairie Theatre would love to help you celebrate your date night in with some delicious Movie Theater Popcorn! We will be serving Curbside Popcorn this Saturday from 6pm-730pm!

Congratulations to Jessica McAlexander for winning the marquee challenge this month!! (Tag Jessica!) You will receive a free Large Popcorn and 5 Cake Pops donated by Amanda-Albert Brewster for your romantic movie quote (sorry it didn't all fit! We highly overestimated how much space we had 😅) Just swing by and pick it up on Saturday between 6-730pm!

We are so grateful for everyone's support through the renovations! We were able to raise $1,100 in December with your free will donations for a Large🍿Popcorn! Those donations have helped us purchase material to fix theater seating and buy paint and cleaning supplies to get the theater in tip top shape! Every donation you give gets us closer to showing movies and we are so excited 🥳

If you are interested in volunteering to help with renovations or concessions reach out to us on messenger and we will get you connected.

Now the important question! What is everyone watching on Saturday?!... It's RomComs isn't it? 😂

01/29/2026

Want to learn more about our progress at the Prairie Theater?! Join us tonight at Second Chapter with Bubba's for music bingo! Learn about what we're up to with a presentation by Kaelyn, sign up to volunteers, and get some fresh movie theater popcorn or a sticker with a free will donation!

6pm tonight!

See you at Second Chapter Brewing with Bubba-Brylie DuPeire

01/19/2026

Update: I feel we may have alienated the men the community theater is for EVERYBODY 😜 bonus points if it's funny or bromance!

You may notice some new decorations at the Prairie Theater this week thanks to one of our awesome volunteers 🩷🩷 February is just around the corner and Prairie Theatre is here for it!

💐This Valentine's Day we will be doing curbside popcorn from 6-7:30pm!!

🍿Want to win a free date night box that includes two drinks, popcorn and candy for Valentine's Day??!

Comment your favorite love quote from any movie and if we use it for our marquee in February - you win!! 🏆

01/06/2026

Happy New Year from the Community Prairie Theater! We hope everyone had a safe and fun holiday!

We have enjoyed the outpouring of congratulations, questions, and shared experiences regarding the Prairie Theatre! It has been a whirlwind for our volunteer board since the purchase in late November and since we closed out 2025 and have a fresh year ahead of us, we thought we would tell you a little about ourselves and what our vision for the theater is!

Our board currently consists of 6 volunteers who live in Ogallala and the surrounding towns. We all have children or grandchildren who attend the area schools, and work and/or own businesses in the area. We also volunteer in other areas including the schools, 4H, athletics, and organized clubs! As you can see we are busy folks invested in our community! Our board members include Kaelyn Armstrong, Hanna Flaming, Stephanie Reed, Lisa and Andy Byers, and Jeremy Smith.

The Community Prairie Theater has been meeting since August of 2024 and became incorporated as a Non Profit in February 2025. Our organization decided this would be the best route to secure the theater in our community for generations to come. The historical Prairie Theater being owned by a non profit makes it eligible for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of grants to remodel and revitalize the building. Our team is passionate about restoring it back to the nostalgic art deco look of the 1930s that it originally was.

Our board has been working diligently with other non profit community run theaters to ensure success! We are looking forward to working with community organizations to make this successful for generations to come and our dedicated to transparency through the process!

We hear you! We know you want movies 😁😆 we are currently working with contractors and safety inspectors to ensure that we provide a safe and comfortable experience for all of our movie goers and we will keep you posted as we have news!

In the mean time stay connected!

Comment what movies you are excited about coming out!

Did anyone see Anaconda?? 😳🤣

Should we do another free will donation curbside popcorn night? We had so much fun last month!

12/14/2025

We are excited to see everyone tonight (Sunday December 14th) 530-7 for curbside popcorn!! It's a good night for popcorn and a movie or popcorn and Christmas carols while looking at Christmas lights! Free will cash donation accepted and don't forget Santa said you could cash in those Polar Express tickets for a bucket of popcorn!

Thanks Santa and Ogallala Optimist Club!

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208 N Spruce Street
Ogallala, NE
69153

Opening Hours

Friday	6:30pm - 7:45pm
Saturday	6:30pm - 7:45pm
Sunday	4pm - 7:15pm

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+13082842728

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