2022 Olivier Award-winning play LIFE OF PI to open on Broadway in March 2023

Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling stage adaption of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel Life of Pi will premiere at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre from 9 March 2023, it has been announced.

Prior to its Broadway run, Life of Pi will make its North American Premiere at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University from 4 December 2022 - 29 January 2023.

Life of Pi is directed by Max Webster, with set and costume design by Olivier Award winner Tim Hatley, puppet and movement direction by Finn Caldwell, puppet design by Olivier Award winners Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell, video design by Olivier Award winner Andrzej Goulding, lighting design by Olivier Award winner Tim Lutkin, sound design by Carolyn Downing, original music by Andrew T Mackay, and dramaturgy by Jack Bradley. 

Broadway casting will be announced shortly.

Producer Simon Friend said: “Having started work seven years ago to bring Yann Martel’s much-loved story to the stage, for it to live on Broadway is enormously gratifying. Life of Pi has been so joyously received by audiences young and old in the UK, which is testament to the skill of the large team of artists delivering a show which entertains, and makes you think and feel in equal measure. We can’t wait to welcome audiences on Broadway.”

Based on one of the best-loved works of fiction – winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide – Life of Pi is a breath-taking new theatrical adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope.

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a sixteen-year-old boy name Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Life of Pi is currently playing at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End where it won five Olivier Awards including Best New Play, Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design.  In an historic first for the Olivier Awards, the seven performers who play Royal Bengal tiger ‘Richard Parker’ were collectively awarded Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The London production with its cutting-edge visual effects has garnered great critical acclaim.

Tickets go on general sale for the Broadway run on 3 November at 10am ET here.

To book tickets for the London run, please click here.