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Airs Friday, Dec. 25, 2015 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The awards for best musical and best play went to two shows based on books, each of which once seemed like an improbable adaptation.

Sugar skulls, tamales, and a spirit's favorite spirits -- These are things you might find on the altar in cemeteries all over Mexico and nearby places where families go to picnic and celebrate the Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, on Nov. 1 and 2.

Councilman Mark Kersey's fast-rising status has some predicting he will run for higher office, but he said he’s not thinking about that now.

King Salman has named a new heir — and consolidated power in the hands of a younger generation.

Author David Rain is an opera fan, and after watching Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, was left with one question: Whatever happened to the son in the story? His new book, The Heat of the Sun, aims to provide an answer.

Prime Minister Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, who seized power last May, says he will lift martial law and replace it with a constitutional provision that gives him the very same powers.

Over the weekend and into Monday, the billionaire Koch brothers and supporters converged on the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point.

Written in the '80s, The Gourmet is an absurdist satire exploring the politics of food and the hedonistic culture of consumerism that treats it as a recreational drug. It's still strikingly relevant.

After the Civil War, pursuing butterflies was more than a pastime for many Americans — it was a passion. In his book, Butterfly People, William Leach chronicles the infatuation, from its European roots and natural-history tradition to its eventual fall.