At Sum Theatre we use professional live theatre as a vehicle for building and engaging community. Everything we do and how we do it flows from our mission and our vision. Our mission is to build community through exciting live theatre experiences. Our vision is we are all creative and valued people participating in art to build more inclusive community. We talk together. We listen together. We create change together.

We have five core values. These values inspire and motivate us to do our best work. They are: Fun, Inclusion, Innovation, Reciprocity, and Empathy.

We are an artist-driven organization with a range of activities:

Theatre in the Park creates an original large-scale musical play every year, and tours to over 35 neighbourhood parks in May and June. Our 2026 production, The Colour of the Town, is about Democracy, and the power each of us possess to improve our community. This summer, we will welcome our 100,000th audience member!

The First Monday supports the development of new Saskatchewan plays, presenting them at monthly public readings. To date, five First Monday playwrights have gone on have their plays professionally produced.

Youth on the Rise is a theatre program for underserved youth, connecting them with supportive artist mentors.

All of these programs are offered for free.