Michael Reilly was backstage at the Pantages Theatre, brushing tiny strokes of blue paint around the bulging eyes of Zazu — a dodo bird hand puppet featured in Disney’s “The Lion King.” The ...

“A Celebration of the Festival of the Lion King” returns with soaring soloists, stilt walkers, a fire twirler, animalistic choreography and costuming, a king-size Simba puppet and popular songs to ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — All this week we are taking you behind the scenes of the Lion King in Kalamazoo. There are 230 puppets throughout the show. Puppet master, Michael Reilly, oversees them all and says ...

The urgency each day, each week, each month is how to keep each performance of “The Lion King” fresh — how, after all these years and all these countries, the passionate performances and the ...

The musical "The Lion King" will return Proctors in 2022, but the date has yet to be set. (Provided photo by Disney.) The jungle comes alive again on Tuesday night as "The Lion King" puts down roots ...

The Lion King has been setting up at Syracuse's Landmark Theatre for weeks, and will open Oct. 26 for three weeks. The touring Broadway production has 230 puppets and more than 700 props. It takes 13 ...

Pageantry in the Disney musical “The Lion King” hits its peak in the opening number as a full range of wild African animals fills the stage. While they sing Elton John’s “Circle of Life,” actors ...

Is Dr. Simba Makoni, Zimbabwe's former finance minister, a genuine contender for the presidential election in Zimbabwe or simply part of a political ploy to keep President Robert Mugabe in power? Is ...