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 ...

For Life of Pi, the overcontrolled director Ang Lee has gone with his strengths and made a movie that’s passionately overcontrolled. It takes place largely on a lifeboat adrift in the South Pacific ...

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Get all the top news & discounts for Washington, DC & beyond. As Pi opens up to the investigators about his childhood, the greyscale walls of the hospital transform into the lush grounds of his family ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Life of Pi,” Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning, mega-selling 2001 novel, has already been adapted into an immersive 3D film that won Academy Awards for its direction, cinematography and dazzlingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many ways to learn lessons and strengthen character in this life. Being stranded at sea on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger doesn’t necessarily sit at the top of most people’s list. But then, ...

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 ...