Gas & Light Productions was formed in the spring of 1998 and mounted their first production that fall. The company took a gamble and opened with a play based on a book by the very popular comedy/fantasy writer, Terry Pratchett. The play, Wyrd Sisters was based extremely loosely on Shakespeares Macbeth. The first season concluded with the well-known farce See How They Run, by Philip King. The 1999/2000 season opened with another farce, John Chapmans Holiday Snap, coupled with a spring production of Any Number Can Die, a comedy thriller by Fred Carmichael.

2000/2001 saw a return to the Discworld of the Terry Pratchett canon with Mort, a story of a boy who became Deaths apprentice until he let a pretty face distract him from his duties, unleashing a series of potential disasters. For a number of reasons there was to be no spring production this season. 2001 saw the most ambitious production to date, Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest, complicated somewhat by using the less well known four act version of the play. The gamble paid off with the best box office results that the company
had experienced.

The spring 2002 production saw a move from Fort Calgary to the Joyce Doolittle Theatre at the Pumphouse, where Neil Simons Fools was mounted, using, for the first time, a guest director. This too was a financial success and fully justified the move to the better known theatre space. The next season saw another Philip King farce, Pools Paradise followed by Paul Runicks hit Broadway comedy I Hate Hamlet. A successful run at the Pumphouse continued with the Restoration comedy She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith. Offbeat plays The Dresser and Smash soon followed, but the classic tale of Little Women was one of their most popular shows.

Continuing with costume comedies, Gas & Light remounted The Importance of Being Earnest by to great success, and Pride & Prejudice in the fall of 2007. They are celebrating 10 years on the boards with An Absolute Turkey, a farce by the French master Georges Feydeau, October 2008.

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