Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger puppet in "Life of Pi" interacts with audience members during on Feb. 19 at Proctor's Theatre. Rick Marshall/Times Union "Life of Pi" puppeteers Aaron Haskell ...

When the film “Life of Pi” hit theaters in 2012, the critically acclaimed adaptation of Yann Martel's novel brought the story’s co-star, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, to ...

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 ...

Fearsome tiger Richard Parker is, like all the animals in “Life of Pi,” a detailed puppet. Pi’s pop owns a zoo, which is where we first meet the ferocious tiger that is amusingly called ...

Hiran Abeysekera and a Bengal tiger puppet named Richard Parker (handled here by Fred Davis, Scarlet Wilderink and Andrew Wilson) in “Life of Pi” at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

One of the animals, a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, becomes a companion to help guide Pi through his distress on the sea. In the Broadway Series adaptation of Life of Pi, Cincinnati native Anna ...

The play features jaw-dropping visuals and world-class puppetry. Goodin plays the life-sized Bengal tiger puppet Richard Parker. It takes three puppeteers to create the illusion of this character.

Oh, and one more thing: he's a puppet — a puppet who plays an integral part in the three-time Tony Award-winning theatrical ...

Richard Parker, the Royal Bengal tiger in “Life of Pi” takes three puppeteers (including Celia Mei Rubin, bottom left) to operate in the production opening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on ...

Among the five Olivier Awards Life of Pi won in London last year was a best supporting actor award for the seven actors who operate the show’s impressive puppet Royal Bengal tiger, Richard Parker.