Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 is a celestial experience

A musical based on War and Peace sounds like a ludicrous proposition. And of course it is—which is why Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 only focuses on a 70-page interlude within Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. (Or so I’ve been told. Full disclosure: I’ve never read it.) But going off of Katie […]
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