Puppets, vibrant costumes, a gorgeous music score, and precise video projections make up a magical theatrical experience.

We could ask the same question of “Life of Pi” in its prose, cinematic and stage iterations. Certainly something of Martel’s metaphysical inquiry has been lost in remaking it as a pageant ...

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 ...

Yet, with all of these strengths, the show, which debuted in London’s West End late in 2021 and on Broadway early in 2023, earning some accolades along the way, feels less than the sum of its parts.

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 ...

“Life of Pi” premiered at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, before moving to London’s West End, where it won the 2022 Olivier Award for best play (and, charmingly, the seven actors ...