On Stage

New Voices. New Stories. New Musicals. Join us for a celebration of creativity, innovation, and collaboration as we give audiences a glimpse of three of The Musical Stage Company’s musicals…

Crow’s Theatre and The Musical Stage Company present the long-awaited Canadian premiere of the Broadway phenomenon NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 by Dave Malloy. This 12-time Tony-nominated musical delivers a radically contemporary and…

A story of mental health from a Black woman’s perspective, we meet two women who on the exterior share many similarities but due to their extremely different upbringings have very different views…

Set in a prairie Chinatown, MEAT is the story of young metal head Philippa Chang, daughter of the lone Chinese butcher and heir to his “lucky” cleaver. After feeding meat…

Guns and magic. Love and hurt. When gunslinger Prospero conjures a storm in the desert, he begins a chain of events that forces every cowboy and spirit into a fight…

As a celebrated Self-Help Guru, Frank Carter seems to have the answer to the meaning of life, but when he smashes into a truck on her 16th birthday, his daughter…

Set in a dystopian future, technological prodigy Max is an ideal student with a bright future until, with a single swipe, he sets out on a journey to forbidden corners…

DIXON ROAD tells the story of a Somali family who immigrate to Canada in 1991 as the civil war begins to tear their homeland apart. They settle in Dixon Road,…

Set at a Catholic high school in suburban Calgary, Monoceros illustrates just how painfully un-evolved high schools remain, even in the era of “It Gets Better”. Kids can be cruel and indifferent,…

A 2-spirit Indigi-queer Drag Queen fuses Indigenous and Drag cultures giving life to a new style of performance we never knew we needed. The story follows Starwalker, an Indigi-Queer two-spirit…

THE PREPOSTEROUS PREDICAMENT OF POLLY PEEL explores a family grappling with death through the eyes and imagination of a biology-obsessed eleven-year-old girl. Originally inspired by acclaimed Canadian painter Paul Peel’s ‘The…

On the night of the 1969 moon landing, an ordinary housewife walks out on her husband for no real reason. She has never been unhappy; she simply sees the astronauts…