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 ...

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 ...

Dramatist Lolita Chakrabarti slightly re-orders proceedings, opening with the novel’s final section in which Japanese insurance man Mr. Okamoto (David K.S. Tse) and Canadian government figure Kirsten ...

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 ...

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 ...

Based on Martel's bestselling novel, Life of Pi tells the extraordinary story of sixteen-year-old Pi Patel, who survives a shipwreck and finds himself stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean. His ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...