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Georgi James plays Olive in the La Jolla Playhouse premiere of the musical "Little Miss Sunshine."

The Tony Award-winning team behind "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" bring their latest project, a musical based on the film "Little Miss Sunshine", to the La Jolla Playhouse. We'll talk with playwright and director James Lapine and two of the actors, including the young actress playing Olive.

Robert Foxworth and Anthony B. Phillips in a scene from San Diego Rep's production of "Superior Donuts."

Robert Foxworth Talks 'Superior Donuts'

"Superior Donuts" may not be profound stuff, but it is a funny, touching play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Encinitas actor and Old Globe veteran Robert Foxworth talks about his role as the owner of an uptown Chicago donut shop.

An Egyptian man stands next to a bloodstained piece of cloth used to cover the victims of the New Year's Eve car bomb explosion outside the Coptic Al-Qiddisine church in Alexandra, Egypt. Twenty-one people were killed in the attack against Egypt's Christian community, the largest in the Middle East.

Alexandria's Minorities Aim To Reassert Themselves

For 2,000 years, Egypt's city of Alexandria was a haven for people from around the Mediterranean and beyond — a center for intellectual life that first defined the word "cosmopolitan."

"Yes" (left) and "No" ballots for a constitutional referendum are seen at a polling station in Ankara, Turkey, on Sept. 12, 2010. Turks voted to adopt 26 major reforms.

Egypt May Have Advantages Along Path To Democracy

Egypt's way to democracy will be, at best, messy. But assuming its military can reach agreement with opposition leaders about the timing and shape of elections, Egypt's stage is set in some ways that its neighbors' have not been.

At ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in Des Moines, this guest shows off a number of beautifully preserved movie window cards from the 1920s though the 1950s, including this original card used for the 1937 release of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” This impressive collection from Hollywood’s Golden Age is valued at $25,000 to $28,000.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: Des Moines, Iowa - Hour 1

Airs Monday, April 1, 2019 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Egyptian anti-government demonstrators and members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood movement pray in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday.

Explaining Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

Lawrence Wright talks about the history of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group banned in Egypt by the regime of President Hosni Mubarak that could play an important role in the future of the country.

Ayman al-Zawahiri stands behind bars in an Egyptian court in 1982 during his trial as one of the alleged masterminds of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Egyptian Protests May Not Be Help To Al-Qaida

The terrorist movement that got its start in Egypt's prisons during the early days of the Hosni Mubarak regime has been caught off guard by the revolution now under way.

The Pepsi Refresh contest so far has awarded $20 million in grants for creative charitable ideas.

Refreshing Pepsi's Super Bowl Alternative

Pepsi Refresh, which provides grants for creative charitable ideas, will change because of complaints that some used aggressive tactics to win. Pepsi launched the contest last year in lieu of spending $20 million on Super Bowl ads in the hope that it would more effectively spread the brand.

Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic energy Agency, appeared at the protests in Cairo's Tahrir square around 7 p.m on Sunday.

Uncertainty In Egypt's Streets Amid Protests

Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei told cheering crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square that they were "the owners of this revolution." He also called for "the departure of the regime," but so far there are few signs that President Hosni Mubarak is leaving.

A protester in Cairo gestures to anti-riot police in front of the l-Istiqama Mosque in Giza on Friday as tens of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets.

Egypt President Asks Cabinet To Resign

Armored military vehicles rumbled through the streets of the Egyptian capital on Friday in a crackdown on countrywide anti-government protesters that went head-to-head with riot police and set fire to the ruling party headquarters.

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