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.

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.

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.

Learn more about the BBFC

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.

Learn more about Yoti

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!

/ A comfortable modern café bar

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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/ August 16, 2026
What good fortune for a writer struggling with her plot to live next to a retired book editor who is “more than happy to give editorial advice to someone who cares.” The writer, Denise, is hammering away on her novel late at night in the basement of her shoebox-shaped, suburban-middle-American house. The unexpected change in “The End of Oak Street” \ Read more
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The Kind Old Grandma – A Review of “The Summer Book”

/ August 9, 2026
When I moved to Montrose five years ago the heap of rocks which face the foot of the boardwalk down to the beach were flush with the dunes which border the Golf Links. The dunes have eroded such that these days there is an unsteady path of sand between the two. The other afternoon I sat on a flat rock \ Read more

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Beached Captain – A Review of “The Odyssey”

/ July 19, 2026
When I have a free day, I sometimes look up the low tide on Montrose Beach, when the sand almost reaches the horizon, pocket a flask of green tea, and mosey up to the River North Esk estuary. The round trip takes two and a half hours; the most company I get is a few dozen hovering gulls. I have \ Read more