PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — “Life of Pi,” the Tony Award-winning show about a boy who gets shipwrecked with four zoo animals, is coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) next month, and ...

Performances are now underway for the US tour of LIFE OF PI, Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel. The tour opened at the Hippodrome Theatre at the France Merrick ...

Sure he has a name. It's Richard Parker. And he's a Royal Bengal Tiger. Oh, and one more thing: he's a puppet — a puppet who plays an integral part in the three-time Tony Award-winning theatrical ...

The director said, ‘It’s the actor’s role to decide which story to believe, and there is no correct answer.’ There are two versions of how ‘Pi’ survived: one with animals and one with humans. I stand ...

Big cats are familiar territory for The Fox Theatre, where glowing eyes and roars greet visitors at the bottom of the grand staircase and Simba and Nala and a whole cast of Jellicles have made several ...

When Richard Parker slinks into the room, it is difficult not to catch your breath. The Royal Bengal tiger puppet is the star of the stage production of “Life of Pi” and the puppeteers who operate him ...

A boy and his tiger in Life of Pi. Credit: Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade Prior to joining the national tour of Life of Pi, actor Toussaint Jeanlouis had never worked very ...

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 ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — “Life of Pi,” the book by Yann Martel, sold more than 15 million copies before the blockbuster film, and on Wednesday night, the Tony Award-winning theatrical experience opens ...