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 ...

Original and visually stunning, the stage production of “Life of Pi,” at the Hobby Center through Sunday, weaves an extraordinary and imaginative tale of a teenage boy traveling from India to Canada ...

A THEATRICAL EVENT UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSE! Winner of three Tony Awards® and the Olivier Award for Best Play, the Broadway and West End sensation LIFE OF PI is “an exhilarating evening of theater” (The ...

“I’ve had a terrible trip,” says Pi Patel, the lead character in the play “Life of Pi.” He’s likely the only person at Segerstrom Hall that night who felt that way about it after experiencing his ...

One of the best dramas to be staged at the Fox in years, the Broadway hit, based on Yann Martel’s novel, was previously adapted into a feature film. Given new life as a stage play, this Tony and ...

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, ...

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 ...

“I was extremely shy about showing myself when the camera wasn’t rolling. I really can’t pretend to be someone else. This time, I changed my mindset a bit. Since everyone except me is specialized in ...

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 ...