A Home in the Theatre and The Vanishing City

See a documentary double bill that focuses on gentrification and the cultural casualties of NYC’s ever-increasing real-estate prices. Melodie Bryant’s A Home in the Theatre (2010) follows nonagenarian artistic director Edith O’Hara as she fights to save her Greenwich Village playhouse, the 13th Street Repertory Company. In The Vanishing City (2010), codirectors Jen Senko and Fiore DeRosa examine the civic policies that encourage high-end development. A Q&A with Bryant, Senko and DeRosa follows.