It’s not every day that a Broadway show proves to be so right for the zeitgeist. With its visceral nightmare story transforming into a sublimely told survival dream, “Life of Pi” is just the thing ...

Taha Mandviwala helms the cast and aptly carries the narrative opposite Richard Parker, a prowling, lumbering, lunging tiger puppet operated by a team of puppeteers. Puppetry and movement director ...

The North American touring production of “Life of Pi” is a magical piece of theater, but please don’t expect a break from reality. Nor should you bring young children along to Minneapolis’ Orpheum ...

One of the best dramas to be staged at the Fox in years, the Broadway hit, based on Yann Martel’s novel, was previously adapted into a feature film. Given new life as a stage play, this Tony and ...

At a recent performance at Playhouse Square in Cleveland of the U.S. tour of the stage production of “Life of Pi,” an adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, a woman near us remarked to someone that ...

Hiran Abeysekera, and Fred Davis, Scarlet Wilderink, Andrew Wilson operating tiger Richard Parker, 'Life of Pi' Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade When a character promises a life story so ...

The natural world is aswirl in “Life of Pi,” a marvelously inventive stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel. This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a ...

On Tuesday, the visually splendid and sensitive “Life of Pi” opens at Proctors. It is a magical work that is almost subliminally touching. It’s a work that stimulates the imagination and touches the ...

Hiran Abeysekera, Richard Parker (with Fred Davis, Scarlet Wilderink, Andrew Wilson) in "Life of Pi" on Broadway. (Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) Parents take their children to ...

That classic icon from vaudeville and film, the great curmudgeon W.C. Fields said it best, “Never work with kids and animals.” But he never worked with Richard Parker (the tiger). Fields would have ...