

Round House Theatre's "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents," based on Julia Alvarez's novel, features (above, from the left) Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey, Sheila Tapia, Veronica del Cerro and Maggie Bofill. The futility of violence, as expressed in an epic Georgian poem, is dramatized in Synetic Theater's "Host and Guest," with founders Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili.