Bridgend Theatre

Bridgend Theatre is the home of Dumfries Musical Theatre Company who have been performing musical theatre productions in Dumfries for over 100 years, since 1922. We were originally known as Dumfries Musical and Operatic Society (DMOS) but changed to Dumfries Musical Theatre Company (DMTC) in 2008.

We are well-known in Dumfries for performing traditional musicals, as well as funky new ones, always showing off the talent of our Members and providing a high level of production quality and professionalism – seldom seen in an amateur Company.

The Brigend Theatre started life as St Ninian’s Church, a “mission church” designed by the Rev. John R. Denham of St. John’s Episcopal Church. It is described in John Gifford’s “The Buildings of Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway”, as ‘a simple rectangle with an apsed east end and round arch windows, built of hammered dressed stone’.

Rev. Denham had campaigned for the abolition of “seat-rents” in order to allow the poor to attend services at St. John’s. The campaign met with resistance at the time, and St. Ninian’s Church was built at the expense of Rev. Denham in order to provide a place of worship in which seats were free.