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 ...

The Canadian author on good writing advice from Martin Amis, his love for digging and getting rid of billionaires ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Beneath the technical wizardry and versatile performances of “Life of Pi,” there are tragic realities that confront our current national moment with ...

In this new novel, the author tells a dual narrative about an academic who finds a partial retelling of ‘The Iliad.’ ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “Life of Pi” is a play you have to see to believe. Faithfully adapting Yann Martel’s fantastical novel about the sinking of a cargo ship full of zoo animals is a daunting task. If ...

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 ...

In Life of Pi author Yann Martel’s latest book, Son of Nobody, he takes on the mythology of the Trojan War through the eyes of a Canadian academic, highlighting the parallels between now and then. ...

Taha Mandviwala helms the cast and aptly carries the narrative opposite Richard Parker, a prowling, lumbering, lunging tiger puppet operated by a team of puppeteers. Puppetry and movement director ...