EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialLucas Steele, left, and Denée Benton in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” at the Imperial Theater in New York, April 3, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Parisians don't quite trust the assurances of Monsieur Babinet and insist on lying in wait for the comet, plate 394 from Actualit?s. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1857. Dimensions: 204 ? 257 mm (image); 274 ? 357 mm (sheet). Lit...
EditorialDining-room at the Greenwich observatory where Sir Isaac Newton often went to visit the director, Edmond Halley, the first person to observe the comet today called Halley's Comet.
EditorialJosh Groban, center, in the musical "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812" at the Imperial Theater in New York, Nov. 4, 2016. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialDave Malloy, who wrote the book, music and lyrics for “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet,” in a pre-Broadway run of the show in New York, May 4, 2013. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialDining-room at the Greenwich observatory where Sir Isaac Newton often went to visit the director, Edmond Halley, the first person to observe the comet today called Halley's Comet.
EditorialDivers by a sunken boat called the Silver Comet at Dutch Springs, a 50-acre water park and scuba diving site since 1980 that features a 100-foot-deep water filled quarry, north of Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 23, 2021. (Michael Turek/The New York Times)
EditorialDivers by a sunken boat called the Silver Comet at Dutch Springs, a 50-acre water park and scuba diving site since 1980 that features a 100-foot-deep water filled quarry, north of Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 23, 2021. (Michael Turek/The New York Times)
EditorialStage coach driven by four horses and laden down with passengers and luggare moving along up a country lane through a bucolic landscape, 1822. Brighton to London stage coach Comet on Ryegate Hill. Color print after an engraving by Dubourg from an illus...