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 ...

CINCINNATI — Simba, Nala and the rest were still singing in Rochester, New York, when Pride Rock arrived in Cincinnati. The four-week return of "The Lion King" to the Aronoff Center for the Arts ...

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 ...

And now much-loved musical The Lion King will premiere in WA this month. The Disney spectacular, which debuted on Broadway in 1997, has been seen by 75 million people. Nick Afoa as Simba in The Lion ...