[Wolfstar]

Students and their mentors from Everybody Wins! DC, a community-based mentoring program, join First Lady Laura Bush and her mother Jenna Welch (front R) to watch C.S. Lewis' 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe' in the White House Theater this past Friday. The students are from Robert Brent Elementary School and the John Tyler Elementary School in Washington. Also in attendance were Douglas Gresham, stepson of C.S. Lewis, Mary Salander, executive director of Everybody Wins! DC, Pat Schroeder, president of American Publishing Association and Michael Flaherty, co-founder and president of Walden Media.

This is the first photo I can recall seeing of the theater in the White House. All I can say is, it sure is red. Red was a popular color in Victorian homes for walls, furniture and drapes. Maybe the theater motif is intended to be Victorian.

[Wolfstar]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives at the NBC studio in Washington Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005, to be interviewed on 'Meet the Press'.

[radiohead]

Take a look at the kid in the 2nd row, first seat on the left. He's leaning in for the photo; doesn't want to be missed. There's one in every group. : )

[GretchenM]

Someone's probably already addressed this (I'm late to the party, picking up the confetti), but in photos I've seen of the WH theater, the decor isn't red, so possibly it's decorated for the season.