In Front of Your Eyes 2026
A Festival of New Performance Presents
Theresa Donahoe’s
All the Great New Things to Come
The Marsh San Francisco Studio Theater
August 13 at 7:00 pm & August 15 at 2:30 pm
Written and Performed by Theresa Donahoe
Opener: silvi alcivar
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
60 minutes | No Intermission
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
Show Description
In 2020, during Shelter in Place, Theresa is stuck inside her studio apartment in Oakland having menopausal hot flashes. While cleaning and purging her clutter one day, she discovers a forgotten family photo album that her father had given her years ago. Not only does it have pictures, but letters from her ancestors, including her Great Grandmother who was born in San Francisco in 1893. As the world shuts down, the voices of the past come alive, revealing a history that was always closer than she imagined.
All the Great New Things to Come is a personal journey through memory, lineage, and finding home in the place you thought you already knew.
Artist Biography
Theresa Donahoe, Actor, Writer and Performer
Theresa Donahoe is a fourth-generation Bay Area native and actor who mainly performed theater in her youth. Deciding to take a break from theater, she started working in movies (such as SCREAM and RENT) while working in television and movie casting for many years as well. After a 17-year hiatus, she returned to the stage and decided to merge her love for writing with her love for acting. Once she discovered the art form of solo performance, she created and debuted her first solo show, Late Bloomer at the 2017 Rogue Fringe Festival in Fresno, California. Born Again in Berkeley, her second full length show, made its world premiere at the 2022 Rogue Fringe Festival and was performed at various Bay Area venues throughout 2024. All the Great New Things to Come, is her latest work-in-progress solo show.
Opener
silvi alcivar
since 2008, silvi alcivar, aka the poetry store, has written and sold an estimated 100k poems for twice as many people. her poetry lives in the moment two strangers meet over her red royal typewriter—the anonymity an invitation to speak, the typewriter keys a willing listener. she’s worked in places as recognizable as google, as intimate as a funeral, as private as signed an NDA can’t say. her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions, including The De Young, SOMArts Cultural Center, KQED, The California Report, and Madrone. silvi is also a teacher, visiting speaker, poetic storyboarder, collaborator with fire practitioners, and creator of interactive audience performances. presence is her main medium. she loves bunny shelter volunteering, meditation, hiking, and calling SF home. though storytelling’s her newest art form, she’s performed at the berkeley marsh and the zero to fierce festival.
Piece Description – snow white and la bruja negra
a snow white tale akin to the disney version, complete with a bruja for a mother, seven little men following me around, a dash of humor, and the brother’s grimm. this is the story of a life literally touched by animal magic and what happens when being beaten in oakland gives wing to a strength and life-altering spiritual understanding about surviving childhood violence i never would have otherwise had. it’s a portal into what exists when life and death straddle the threshold of ineffable magic and being profoundly human.
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