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Hadestown: The Musical - 13th & 18th October
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STAFF PICK: Waitress - 15th October
October Mystery Movie Night - 21st October
STAFF PICK: The Princess Bride - 22nd October
Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning - 28th & 29th October
Doctor Who: The Satan Pit - 23rd November
The Social Reckoning
Verity
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Welcome to Montrose Playhouse

The Montrose Playhouse is a charity-run 3 screen cinema and art centre with café bar, activity spaces and retail area for promoting the arts, heritage and culture by providing a location for films, art, music, drama and entertainment in the heart of Montrose.
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Our detailed access guide is now live

Our detailed AccessAble guide is now live! Visiting for the first time or a regular visitor, you can now view our amenities & facilities available online.
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Age ratings & Film classification

All classification decisions are based on the BBFC’s published and regularly updated Guidelines. The Guidelines are the product of extensive public consultation, research and the accumulated experience of the BBFC over many years. They reflect current views on film, DVD and video game regulation.

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Please bring suitable ID as you may be asked to verify your age, especially if its certificate 15+ & 18+. We currently accept all legal forms of ID and also Yoti. Children from birth to 11 years old will require to be accompanied by an adult to view age appropriate films until 2000 or end of the film.

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COMMUNITY SCREENINGS

Our Community Screenings are a big part of our programmes and we have various new and old films playing each week.

To find these on our booking site look out for the appropriate logo under the film poster or time in a blue text box.

Relaxed Screenings

Family Relaxed Screenings: Every Sunday Morning
Adults Relaxed Screenings: Every Monday Evening

The typical cinema environment can be stressful for guests with autism, sensory difficulties or learning impairments, as such we tailor the screens to the needs of the audience.

  • The lights are dimmed, though not off

  • The volume levels a little lower than usual

  • You are free to move around the screen and to enter and exit the cinema at any time, with easy access for any wheelchair users

  • You're free to make noise in these screenings

Dementia Friendly Screenings:

Last Friday of the month in the morning

Silver Screenings:

Every Wednesday Afternoon – over 60's get a cuppy and cake included in ticket price for a selected screening

Subtitled Screenings:

Every Friday & Sunday

Baby & Me

Every Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Kids Club:

Every Saturday & Sunday Mornings

If you have any queries on any of our community screening programmes please feel free to get in touch by email: info@montroseplayhouse.co.uk

Eat + Drink

The Reel Cafe Bar

Now serving Maison Dieu coffee!

Our snack bar is also up and running. We are offering of a range of tasty cinema snacks including Pizzas, Nachos, Crunchy Crisps, Hotdogs & more!

These traditional cinema snacks can be enjoyed inside our cinema screens, or inside our reel bar as pre film treat!

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Community Reviews

I had an amazing time!

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\ Karen, Montrose

So did I!

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\ Donald, Arbroath

Honestly it was great

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\ Linda, Forfar

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/ October 13, 2026
After her bedtime story reaches its end and her dad wishes her “night night,” Isabela summons her mom’s doppelgänger, “other mommy,” to stretch playtime. It is a poltergeist. It can assume the body of any human; it can shed its human skin; it can flip an entire room upside down; its true form is of a squat alien with flashing \ Read more
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A Master at Manipulating the Truth – A Review of “Verity”

/ October 8, 2026
The Montrose Playhouse is five years old. The audience picked “Jaws,” “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” “I Swear,” “Forrest Gump,” and “Highlander” to celebrate. “In the town where I grew up,” says Lowen, one of two female writers in “Verity” (Metro Goldwyn Mayer), also showing now at the Montrose Playhouse, “everyone knew everything about everyone.” Everybody \ Read more

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Suck it Nature – A Review of “Digger”

/ October 5, 2026
Digger Rockwell is a cranky Texan billionaire who spends his days telling everyone how great he is. “Listen to me carefully,” he likes to say. One big dramatic event a third of the way through “Digger” (Warner Bros.), showing now at the Montrose Playhouse, flips the sense of the whole film. It is wild and clever. I won’t reveal what \ Read more
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