The Devil and Margarita is a comedy rock musical based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult classic The Master and Margarita. The score is by Dmitri Chuvelev, the book & lyrics (aka script, aka libretto) by Alexandra Berlina. A play based on The Master and Margarita in Alexandra’s translation premiered at the Münchener Kammerspiele theatre in March 2026, but the team behind The Devil and Margarita had in mind not a straightforward stage adaptation of The Master and Margarita but a play with fire, a comedy drama in which demons take centre stage. The libretto adds a strong female character and turns up the novel’s humorous and decadent vibes. The devil (Prof. Voland) and his crew – the clownish cat Behemoth, the smug demon Asasello, and the deadly dashing Hella – arrive in Moscow in 1938. They wreak havoc, enjoy themselves, and, at Margarita’s behest, save a writer (the Master) from the loony bin.