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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

If you see a tiger walking down Grand River, do not be alarmed... it's just Richard Parker making his way to the Wharton Center of Performing Arts in time for the show. "Life of Pi" is the newest ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When “Life of Pi” opens its three-week run at the Connor Palace in Playhouse Square on Tuesday, it’ll be a homecoming of sorts for lead actor Taha Mandviwala. The city holds a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taha Mandviwala as the title character and puppeteers Anna Leigh Gortner, Shiloh Goodin and Toussaint Jeanlouis as the Bengal tiger Richard Parker in the national tour of Life of Pi. Evan Zimmerman ...