You may be familiar with the movie “Life of Pi” or before that, the bestselling book. The story is about a boy who is the only human survivor of a shipwreck when his family, who are zookeepers, attempt to leave their country with some animals in tow. He and a Bengal tiger find themselves together in a lifeboat.

This story has now been adapted into a Broadway play. And yes, the tiger is on stage…through puppetry with life-like qualities. “Life of Pi” opens tonight at the Schoenfeld Theatre.

A pivotal figure in the history of journalism is the subject of a play about to take the stage in New Jersey, and it stars someone many of us know from NYPD Blue and several other popular TV shows: Sharon Lawrence. Lawrence played assistant DA Sylvia Costa in the long running series. She’s also in a play about Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham, "The Shot." The story involves Graham's turbulent marriage to the paper's publisher Philip Graham. She then became a publisher after he took his own life.

Lawrence stars in the solo play which will be performed at NJ Repertory Company in Long Branch. “The Shot” is scheduled as a limited run from April 6-23.