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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Pi Patel, hero of “Life of Pi,” survival is an act of storytelling. Or is it the other way around? While the story may be everything to Pi, it is not the star of this nationally touring play, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dear Readers, sometimes we get magic on stage. Whether that’s in the form of a captivating performance or some brilliant tech wizardry or maybe some stunning direction, this magic is what we yearn for ...

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 ...

There are no musical numbers in the Fox Theatre’s 2025-2026 season opener. But that’s okay. Instead of a full-blown musical spectacle the company has opted for a moving production of The Life of Pi.

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 ...