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Teatro Avante

Teatro Avante is a nonprofit theater organization located in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida.

History

Teatro Avante, founded by Mario Ernesto Sánchez in 1978, focuses on preserving Hispanic theater and culture. According to Sánchez, Teatro Avante was created in order to provide a venue for Spanish-language art theater in Miami. The company's first production was the play Electra Garrigó by the Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera. In 1986, Teatro Avante began organizing and producing an annual theater festival, originally called the Festival of Hispanic Theatre. Four years later, the scope of the festival was expanded, and its name was changed to International Hispanic Theater Festival of Miami. In its most recent iteration, the festival highlighted the theater of Peru and was presented in collaboration with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and the Teatro Prometeo of Miami-Dade College.

Teatro Avante has also represented the United States in international theater festivals, and it held a residency in 2009 at Spain's Festival de Teatro de Villa de Molina.

Productions

Teatro Avante has produced a variety of plays ranging from classics to originals. Their productions debut annually during the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami. In 2018, Teatro Avante held the world premiere of En ningún lugar del mundo (Nowhere in the World) by Cuban playwright Abel González Melo.

1970s

  • Electra Garrigó by Virgilio Piñera (1978)

1980s

1990s

2000s

  • Lila, La Mariposa (Lila the Butterfly) by Rolando Ferrer (2000)
  • Cenizas sobre el mar (Ashes on the Sea) by Jose Assad (2001)
  • La feria de los inventos (The Fair of Discoveries) by Lilliam Vega and Raquel Carrió (2002)
  • El vuelo de Quijote (Don Quixote's Flight) by Lilliam Vega and Raquel Carrió (2003)
  • The Immaculate Man (El Hombre Immaculado) (2004)
  • La feria de los inventos (The Fair of Discoveries) by Lilliam Vega and Raquel Carrió (2004)
  • Una caja de zapatos vacía (An Empty Shoe Box) by Virgilio Piñera (2005)
  • El filántropo (The Philanthropist) by Virgilio Piñera, adapted by Raquel Carrio (2005)
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare, adapted by Raquel Carrio (2006)
  • Yerma by Federico García Lorca, adapted by Raquel Carrio (2007)
  • Celestina (novel)|La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, adapted by Raquel Carrio (2008)
  • Cold Air (Aire frío) by Virgilio Piñera, adapted by Raquel Carrio (2009)

2010s

  • Por las tierras de Colón (Across Columbus' Land) by Guillermo Schmidhuber (2010)
  • The Misunderstanding by Albert Camus (2011)
  • El No (No) by Virgilio Piñera (2012)
  • Al pie del Támesis (On the Banks of the Thames) by Mario Vargas Llosa (2013)
  • Años difíciles (Difficult Years) by Roberto Cossa (2014)
  • Alguna cosita que alivie el sufrir (A Little Something to Ease the Pain) by Rene R. Aloma (2015)
  • El puerto de los cristales rotos (The Harbor of Broken Glass) by Mario Ernesto Sánchez and Patricia Suárez (2016)
  • Notas que saben a olvido (Forgetting) by Araceli Mariel Arreche (2017)
  • La última felicidad (The Last Happiness) by Neher Jacqueline Briceño (2018)
  • En ningún lugar del mundo (Nowhere in the World) by Abel González Melo (2018)
  • Bayamesa by Abel González Melo (2019)

2020s

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