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The Glenwood Arts is the metro’s art house — a five-screen independent cinema on the second floor of Ranch Mart South in Overland Park, run by the Mossman brothers under the Fine Arts Group banner. Its booking is the thing that distinguishes it: first-run independents and documentaries alongside National Theatre Live broadcasts, Manhattan Shorts, CatVideoFest, and a running Mystery Movie series where the audience buys a $6 ticket without being told what it is about to watch. The building has shown films since 1968; the Glenwood Arts name arrived in 2015 when the original Glenwood Arts at Metcalf South was demolished and the marquee moved here.

Description

Glenwood Arts Theatre is a five-screen independent cinema in Overland Park, on the second floor of the Ranch Mart South shopping centre at 95th Street and Mission Road.12 It is operated by the Fine Arts Group, the Kansas City metro exhibitor run by brothers Brian and Ben Mossman.234

What separates the Glenwood Arts from the multiplexes on the Metcalf corridor is the booking sheet rather than the building. The theatre programmes first-run independent films and documentaries, and it carries the specialty-exhibition circuit that never reaches a chain screen: National Theatre Live and Artists Series broadcasts (a 2026-27 slate including The Misanthrope, The Playboy of the Western World, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, All My Sons, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Audience), Manhattan Shorts, and CatVideoFest.56

It also runs a Mystery Movie series — a $6 ticket to an unannounced film, scheduled far enough ahead to appear on the booking calendar as dated placeholders.56 The 2026 calendar read on the theatre’s own ticketing system carried titles booked from mid-August 2026 through National Theatre Live productions into March 2027, which is unusually deep forward booking for a single-site independent and a good indicator of a stable operation.6

At the September 2021 reopening after an eighteen-month COVID-19 closure, the theatre described itself in press coverage as showing “independent and local films” and having served the community for nearly forty years across its various locations.3

Programming and services

  • First-run independent film and documentary exhibition, five screens526
  • National Theatre Live and Artists Series stage broadcasts56
  • Manhattan Shorts annual short-film programme — $12 (2026)56
  • CatVideoFest — $10 (2026), a benefit screening56
  • Mystery Movie series — $6, unannounced title56
  • Special limited showings5
  • Private theatre rentals — offered as of 20213
  • Email showtimes list5
  • Online ticketing via the theatre’s own Veezi system6

History

The building at Ranch Mart South opened as a cinema on 22 May 1968 under the name Ranch Mart Theatre, a twin operated by First International Theatres; two further screens were added in 1972 and the house ran as a first-run complex.2 Commonwealth Theatres later operated it and installed THX sound in 1986. After the Commonwealth circuit was sold, the theatre ran as a discount house and closed on 16 November 1997.2

The Fine Arts Theatre Group then renovated the building and reopened it as the Leawood Theatre.2 Its present name arrived by transfer: the original Glenwood Arts — a separate theatre that had opened 3 August 1967 on Metcalf Avenue and taken the Glenwood Arts name in November 2002 — closed in January 2015 and was demolished along with the Metcalf South mall, with a Lowe’s and apartments now on the site.7 The Ranch Mart house was renamed Glenwood Arts Theatre in January 2015 and expanded to five screens.2

The theatre closed in March 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic, reopened briefly, closed again in December 2020, and reopened for good on 17 September 2021 on a Friday-to-Sunday schedule, with Brian Mossman quoted at the time: “We’re excited to reopen, and we’ve really missed our customers.”3

The Fine Arts Group’s second Overland Park house, the single-screen Rio Theatre in downtown Overland Park, has not reopened since March 2020 and is not covered by this page. See the note below.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Ranch Mart Shopping Center — landlord tenant directory, Glenwood Arts Theatre — asserts: address 3707 W 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66206; phone (913) 642-1132; website fineartsgroup.com/glenwood-arts/; located on the second floor of Ranch Mart South; specialises in “independent and local films”; has served the Overland Park community for nearly four decades; social accounts facebook.com/FineArtsKC and instagram.com/finearts_theatreskc. This is the property owner’s own tenant listing, not a third-party aggregator. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩

  2. Cinema Treasures — Glenwood Arts Theatre, Overland Park, KS (record 18975) — asserts: address 3707 W. 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66206; status open and showing movies; 5 screens, 1,300 seats; opened 22 May 1968 as the Ranch Mart Theatre, a twin operated by First International Theatres; two screens added 1972; later operated by Commonwealth Theatres, which installed THX sound in 1986; ran as a discount house and closed 16 November 1997; renovated and reopened by the Fine Arts Theatre Group as the Leawood Theatre; renamed Glenwood Arts Theatre in January 2015 and expanded to five screens after the original Glenwood Arts closed for mall demolition; operated by Fine Arts Theatres, owned by brothers Brian and Ben Mossman; programmes first-run and independent films. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. Johnson County Post — “Glenwood Arts Theatre in Overland Park to reopen this weekend after year-and-a-half of uncertainty,” 14 September 2021 — asserts: Brian Mossman is co-owner; Stephanie Maitri is general manager; the theatre is operated by the Fine Arts Group; address 3707 W. 95th Street in the Ranch Mart South shopping complex; reopened 17 September 2021 after an eighteen-month closure, initially Friday through Sunday; opening films Cry Macho, Blue Bayou, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Capote Tapes; tickets then $8 matinee and $11 evening, on sale from 15 September 2021; programmes independent and local films; has served the community for nearly 40 years across locations; private theatre rentals offered; the Rio Theatre, a single-screen house near downtown Overland Park, was planned to reopen later. Direct quote: “We’re excited to reopen, and we’ve really missed our customers.” — Brian Mossman. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. Search-surfaced summary of Cinema Treasures, Wikipedia’s Rio Theatre (Overland Park, Kansas) article, and Fine Arts Group material — asserts: twin brothers Ben and Brian Mossman operate the Fine Arts Group, which has owned and operated independent movie theatres in the Kansas City metro area since 1982; the Rio Theatre opened 25 December 1946, was sold to the Fine Arts Theatre Group in 1993, was extensively renovated and reopened in 2000. These facts come from a search engine’s surfaced summary rather than a direct read of the underlying pages and are labelled as such. Wikipedia article ↩

  5. Fine Arts Group — official site XML sitemap — asserts: the live URL set for the operator’s own site, including /about--contact, /coming-soon, /mystery-movie-series, /national-theatre-live--artists-series, /special-limited-showings, /email-signup, /terms--conditions-for-on-line-ticket-sales, and individual /movie/ pages for currently and forthcoming booked titles including catvideofest-2026, manhattan-shorts-2026, nt-live-all-my-sons, nt-live-the-importance-of-being-earnest, national-theatre-live-the-misanthrope, national-theatre-live-the-playboy-of-the-western, national-theatre-live-les-liaisons-dangereuses, the-audience-nt-live-the-audi, and dated mystery-movie entries. Primary currently-operating proof — read directly. Note the sitemap contains no Rio Theatre page. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  6. Glenwood Arts — first-party online ticketing (Veezi), session listing — asserts: the cinema is Glenwood Arts; sessions listed from 15 August 2026 through 3 October 2026 with National Theatre Live productions booked through March 2027; titles including The Rivals of Amziah King, The Brink of War, One Night Only, Tony, Late Fame, A Sad and Beautiful World, Young Washington, Cookie Queens, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, CatVideoFest 2026, Amrum, Colors of Time, The Invite, Finding Emily; showtimes roughly 1:00 PM to 7:30 PM daily; CatVideoFest 2026 $10, Manhattan Shorts 2026 $12, mystery movie $6; “No Passes” on select screenings. Live-operation proof. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  7. Cinema Treasures — Glenwood Arts Theater, Overland Park, KS (record 36318, the earlier Metcalf Avenue house) — asserts: address 9575 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, KS 66212; opened 3 August 1967 with Walt Disney’s The Gnome-Mobile, replacing the earlier Glenwood Theatre further along Metcalf Avenue; 3 screens; originally named the Metcalf Theatre and renamed Glenwood Arts Theatre on 22 November 2002; operated over its life by Commonwealth Theatres Corp., National General Theatres, Mann Theatres, Dickinson Theatres and First International Theatres; closed January 2015 and demolished, with a Lowe’s and apartments now on the site. This is a different, now-demolished theatre — cited only to explain the transfer of the Glenwood Arts name. (Fetched 2026-08-14.) ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/glenwood-arts-theatre · record updated 2026-08-14