Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The Théâtre de la Ville, now named for Sarah Bernhardt, reopened after a seven-year renovation. But its once-radical approach to ...

Armand Guerra's 1914 film commemoration of the 1871 Paris Commune (this is the first part of two, the second part was not concluded because of the outbreak of WW1). The last two minutes of the film ...

The revolution will be televised – in fact it already has been. Peter Watkins’ stunning 2000 film La Commune (Paris, 1871) follows the events of a working-class uprising in Paris in the late 19th ...

The essay below by Leon Trotsky was first published in French as a preface to the book by C. Talès, La Commune de 1871. It was written in the town of Zlatoust, on February 4, 1921, in the lead up to ...