Source: Mash-ups Group E

Is there a word in the English language that better holds the promise of joy than mash? Is there anything which better suggests ingredients marinating in a dish, creating by their integration with each other something fresh and savory

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

“Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without the ice cream.”  This is just one of many lines young audience members will be able to relate to in this lively production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Source: Project 24/7

Project 24/7 is to the Source  Festival 2009 as Iron Chef is to cooking. In Iron Chef, culinary masters are assigned an ingredient (squid!) at random and told to construct an entire meal (Squid Salad! Lemon Drop Squid Soup! Roast Squid with Béarnaise Sauce!

Lyle the Crocodile

After the beautiful opening scene of Lyle the Crocodile, I’m holding my breath.  Could the rest of the production be as good?  An hour and a half later, I answer yes.  This is children’s theater at its best.

Source 10 minutes Plays - Group C

One of the things that makes Washington DC such an exciting theatre town is its willingness to nurture and cultivate new talent. The Source Festival is a great place to see new work from promising playwrights.

Source 10 Minute Plays - Groups A & B

How much play can you fit into ten minutes?  More than you think.  Source Festival 2009 opens with three groups of shorts, before expanding to one act and full length plays.

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking is a reflective look at the most difficult time in her life. As a world-class writer, Didion resorts to her craft to help clarify her own thoughts

The Seagull on 16th Street

It takes chutzpah to write new dialogue for Chekhov’s classic The Seagull and to insert Russian Jewish themes that didn’t exist in the original.  While the setting and basic plot remain the same, Theater J’s The Seagull on 16th Street adds dramatic conflicts over the extent

King Lear

What penalty does an artist pay for telling the truth? I am not speaking about the penalties paid by ordinary people like you and me (or at least me). We see those prices paid constantly, in Kosovo and Chile,

The Millionairess

All right, so what did the first Act of George Bernard Shaw’s The Millionairess, now playing at Olney Theatre Center, remind you of? You know the one I mean, where the haughty, father-drunk, self-obsessed millionairess

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