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 ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Washington, DC & beyond. As Pi opens up to the investigators about his childhood, the greyscale walls of the hospital transform into the lush grounds of his family ...

You’ve never seen anything on stage quite like Life of Pi. Life of Pi tells the story of a young man who is the only survivor of a cargo ship sinking. Pi and his family booked passage on a ship from ...

Note: At the Jan. 15 performance of “Life of Pi,” the traditionally male role of Pi was played by understudy and ensemble member Uma Paranjpe, a female performer, and Pi was presented as a girl. To ...

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 ...

Lost in the Pacific Ocean after a shipwreck, Pi Patel only has a Bengal tiger as company for 227 days. The tiger, alternating between carnal and cooperative, becomes the force that maintains Pi’s will ...

Pi (Hiran Abeysekera) goes head to head with tiger-puppet Richard Parker in a boisterous new staging of "Life of Pi." Evan Zimmerman A pair of extraordinary elements make the new spectacle show “Life ...

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 ...

When I first learned about the movie Life of Pi, I confess I was less than curious, having neither heard of nor read the book. Several years later, when it was adapted into a movie and then a Broadway ...

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 ...

SCHENECTADY — Toward the beginning of “Life of Pi,” running through Sunday at Proctors, Piscine “Pi” Patel makes an ambitious promise: that his story will make those listening believe in God. What ...

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 ...