How will you choose between all these intriguing productions? So many to pick from and each one sounds fantastic!

SANDALWOOD - A WORLD PREMIERE

A co-production with Tympanic Theatre Company, this new psycho-Western explores humankind's penchant for committing crimes against nature for selfish gain

Runs: 3-27-14 through 4-20-14 

WHAT TO LISTEN FOR - A WORLD PREMIERE

Mahler, Schoenberg, Freud, and Gould walk out of a bar and into Margaret's mind in this World Premiere about memory and longing.

Runs: 6-1-14 THROUGH 7-6-14

HELLO FAILURE - A MIDWEST PREMIERE 

Rebecca isn't going to today's support group meeting. She'd rather spend the day in the bath with submarine inventor Horace L. Hunley, despite his having died in 1863

Runs: 6-15-14 through 7-6-14

MIKE AND SETH - A MIDWEST PREMIERE 

Childhood friends Mike and Seth share a hotel room the night before Mike's wedding. Unable to sleep, they try to make sense of themselves, each other, and the future.

Runs: 8-2-14 through 8-31-14

MILES AWAY - A CHICAGO PREMIERE 

For Sissy and Ron, two desperate pool hustlers holed up in a cheap hotel, a brutal cycle of dependency, betrayal, and hope comes to a head.

Runs: 8-6-14 through 8-31-14

Told you there was a lot to choose from...

ABOUT: The side project connects Chicago's most innovative and engaging writers, directors, designers, and performers in an ongoing exploration of the power of hyper-intimate theatre.

Their projects develop out of relationships with artists, an appreciation of their work and processes, and an understanding of where they want to go.

The side project's focus is not simply on world-premiere plays, but on world-premiere collaborations: creating never-before-seen teams of artists, each of whom has a body of work which speaks to the others in unique and exciting ways.

By bringing together established talent and emerging up-and-comers, they foster new partnerships, explore new creative territory, and celebrate the best of Chicago storefront theatre.

Over its 10-year history, the side project has presented more than 60 productions, including 34 full-length plays (featuring 20 world premieres, three of which were subsequently published); 15 one-act festivals (featuring 100 plays -- including 66 world premieres); 36 staged readings; and four sketch-comedy shows -- through which we have showcased the work of 211 actors, 53 writers, 32 directors and 44 designers, some on multiple occasions and in different world premiere situations.

In addition, the side project has hosted more than 25 companies, including six as Visiting Artists -- those who have performed their entire season(s) at The Side Project. For its work, the side project received the 2006 Spirit of Rogers Park Award and the 2009 Broadway in Chicago Emerging Theatre Award, and Artistic Director Adam Webster was named one of PerformInk's "Top 25 Artists Making a Difference" (2004) and New City's "Top 50 Artists Making Chicago Theatre Work" (2009).