The Musical Stage Company is the largest and leading charitable musical theatre company in Canada. Established in 2004 as Acting Up Stage Company, we strive to make Canada a leader in musical theatre.
We believe it’s better with music.
We are inspired by music’s unique ability to viscerally affect people and are committed to cultivating experiences – onstage and off – that transform lives, build empathy and create community through musical theatre.
We incubate new Canadian musicals from development to production, investing in Canadian musical theatre writers and building national and international partnerships. Our musical productions – including award-winning contemporary musicals, world premieres and concerts – are seen live by 30,000 people over the 80+ nights that we are onstage annually in venues both traditional and surprising. To date, our work has been recognized with 82 Dora Award nominations, 18 Dora Awards and 16 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards.
Our robust education programs develop the artists and audiences of tomorrow, offering musical theatre training that boosts self-confidence and self-expression for over 200 young people each year without cost to the participants. We also curate innovative musical programs in partnership with diverse organizations, maximizing the resonance of our work across disciplines and communities.
Groundbreaking and innovative, Edge of The Sky is a company whose mission is to promote, encourage, and nurture emerging Canadian artists and their work. Edge of the Sky Theatre fully embraces the ever-changing and wonderfully diverse culture of Toronto.
So far, our company has many outstanding acheivements, such as; hit productions Summerland and The Fence which both made Best of the Toronto Fringe in 2015 and 2016. Blood Ties has been featured on stage in Toronto and the Edinburgh Fringe and on the hit TV show Orphan Black. We’ve taken part in the first Earth to Space performance of I.S.S. (Is Someone Singing) with Commander Chris Hadfield and the Barenaked Ladies.
The foundation of this new and energetic company is Canada’s young people; young people of all races and identities. We work with professional Canadian artists to raise these powerful and disparate voices to a strong and clear focus of enormous breadth, like the horizon at the edge of the sky.
Come to the edge with us.