Life of Pi @ Paramount Theatre

Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi comes to dazzling life in this brand-new production. It’s a tall tale spun by the titular character, a 16-year-old Indian boy whose family owns a zoo. After being horribly shipwrecked, he spends nearly a year on a single lifeboat, sharing space with some of his family’s animals, most notably a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Along his harrowing adventures, he learns not just how to survive, but how to find a balanced approach to humanity, spirituality, nature, and the stories we tell ourselves to stay alive.

While Ang Lee’s Academy Award-winning 2012 film adaptation used groundbreaking visual effects to support its narrative, playwright Lolita Chakrabarti and director Max Webster lean into the artificial nature of the stage and combine various performing arts spectacles—dance, mapped projection, and some of the greatest puppets you’ll see outside of a billion-dollar amusement park—to immerse you in Pi’s journey. As one of the few non-musicals making the rounds (this is a national tour of the Broadway transfer, which won three Tony Awards), it’s assured that audiences will be privy to an outstanding, immersive experience the likes of which they’ve never seen.

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