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)
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.