Bengal Tiger

• Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Earlier this year it was announced that "Bengal Tiger" was selected as an NEA Outstanding New American Play as part of the National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development Program hosted by Arena Stage, and Rajiv Joseph also received the 2009 Kesselring Fellowship for his work on the play. His play "Animals Out of Paper" in New York recently received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Play. " is a lyrical, haunting new play set against the backdrop of the war in Iraq, in which the lives and in some cases, the afterlives of two American soldiers, an Iraqi translator, the ghost of Saddam Hussein's son Uday, and a Bengal tiger all intersect in a surreal, darkly humorous and gently balanced view of war and its aftermath.

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• October 07, 2009

• Ohio Deputies Shoot 48 Animals That Owner Freed Before Suicide

In a last-ditch attempt to save just one of the wild animals running free on Wednesday, Barb Wolfe crept up to a Bengal tiger partially concealed in brush. From 15 feet, Wolfe, director of conservation and medicine at the Columbus Zoo, shot the tiger with a tranquilizer. She and several Muskingum County sheriff's deputies flanking her with drawn guns waited.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• October 20, 2011

• Cub.

A baby white Bengal tiger is the latest exotic addition to the DEW Animal Kingdom and Sanctuary. Makeena, who makes her home at the unconventional refuge tucked away on 42 acres, is just 5 weeks old. Weighing 9 pounds, she appears to be more gentle pet than eventual beast.

• Portland Press Herald
• May 23, 2011

• Dark Comedy Set in Baghdad

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO New Broadway play, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 W. 46th St.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• April 01, 2011

• Author! Author! Book Signings and Author Appearances in the Mid- South

Canadian writer Yann Martel, whose "Life of Pi" won the Man Booker Prize in 2002, will be at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Memphis at 6 p.m. Tuesday to sign his 2010 novel "Beatrice and Virgil" (Spiegel & Grau, $24, paperback $14). Like "Life of Pi," in which a boy and a Bengal tiger journey together in a lifeboat after a shipwreck, "Beatrice and Virgil" is a tale in which animals are pivotal characters. Unlike "Life of Pi," the new novel has gotten a rocky reception from critics. "The inescapable fact about the book," wrote a journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian, "is that it has not been very well received. In the US the reviews were what one politely calls 'mixed'; in the UK they have been uniformly hostile.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• March 07, 2011

• Rescue for Exotic, Endangered Animals in Need of Supplies

WEST ALEXANDRIA -- For more than 20 years, Heaven's Corner Zoo & Animal Sanctuary in West Alexandria has been rescuing endangered and exotic animal species. Residents at the nonprofit facility in Preble County include a White Bengal Tiger, an Amur Leopard, monkeys, porcupines, alligators and an Albino Burmese Python.

• Dayton Daily News
• June 07, 2011

• Broadway Rich in Stars, but with Widely Varied Results

Rajiv Joseph's play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" had a production last year in Los Angeles. This year, it came to Broadway. Most of the actors were from the California cast, but there was a newcomer: Robin Williams.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• May 23, 2011

• Bengal Tiger From Oregon Gets Root Canal

LODI, Calif. (AP) Many dentists have a difficult time performing root canals on scared humans. So it's no surprise that a root canal on a 600-pound Bengal tiger required three dentists, an oral surgeon, a veterinarian and plenty of courage. The 15-year-old tiger known as Kubie traveled from an Oregon preservation center to Lodi for the procedure at the Arbor Pet Clinic.

• The Columbian
• June 07, 2005

• Fair Allows Visitors to Take Wild Ride

saturday fair schedule 10 a.m. -- Family Fun Olympics, Festival Garden 11 a.m. -- Bingo, Festival Garden Pavilion 2:30 a.m. -- Bengal Tiger Act, on the grounds 8 p.m. -- Buckcherry and Default, Grandstand For all fair events, go to www.thonline.com It's mid-afternoon at the Dubuque County Fair, and in the southwest corner of the main grounds one of the Chainsaw Chix is finishing up a perfectly acceptable sculpture of the head of an American bald eagle.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• July 30, 2011

• Tiger Safari ; New Team Brings Luxury, Style to India's Game Lodges

Late afternoon in the heart of India. Our land rover moves slowly along a dirt road, on the prowl for a Bengal tiger. Chital, the white-spotted deer, appear nonchalant. Birds act normal. No tiger in sight. None around here. Then, leading a cloud of dust, another land rover speeds by without a word, but our driver knows what is happening and quickly turns around in pursuit. A tiger has appeared, and we are on its trail. Hopefully.

• The Washington Times
• November 10, 2007