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 ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES -- A stage production of "Life of Pi" is now playing in downtown Los Angeles, bringing the tale's iconic animals to life with impressive puppetry. The star of the show is a ...

On Tuesday night Life of Pi will take the stage at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, marking the first time the show has made a stop at the Buell Theatre. The play, which is based on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, ORE (KOIN)- Could you survive for 227 days on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Now, imagine your companions are zoo animals! We sent our Nicole DeCosta out to the Keller ...

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 ...