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.

Beneath the technical wizardry and versatile performances of “Life of Pi,” there are tragic realities that confront our current national moment with unflinching horror. It’s not to the detriment of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Life of Pi” tells the story of a 16-year-old boy who survives a shipwreck and shares a lifeboat with wild animals. Taha Mandviwala, who plays Pi, says the play explores themes of survival, faith, and ...

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 ...