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 by Cuban playwright Abel González Melo.

1970s

  • Electra Garrigó by Virgilio Piñera

    1980s

  • Aire frío by Virgilio Piñera
  • Deborah
  • Retired Ladies by Percy & Denham
  • Homage
  • Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  • Aire frío by Virgilio Piñera
  • Las niñas ricas de Camagüey adaptation by Eduardo Corbé
  • Aqui ya es otoño
  • Chapter Two by Neil Simon
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
  • El flaco y el gordo by Virgilio Piñera
  • Yo prefiero a Caballero by Cristina Sánchez
  • Desconcierto by Diana Raznovich
  • The Lady of Larkspur Lotion by Tennessee Williams
  • The Farm by George Orwell, adaptation by Mario Ernesto Sanchez
  • Experimental Theatre Cycle
  • Los monstruos sagrados by Jean Cocteau
  • Don Gil de las calzas verdes by Tirso de Molina
  • Recuerdos de Tulipa by Manuel Reguera Saumell
  • Tres Tristes Tigres by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  • I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti
  • Soul Gone Home
  • PIcnic on the Battlefield by Fernando Arrabal
  • Las brujas de Salem by Alberto Sarraín
  • Lorca or the Language of Love
  • The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden by Federico García Lorca
  • Waiting for to Go
  • The Past is the Past by Richard Wesley
  • The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
  • Alguna cosita que alivie el sufrir by Alberto Sarraín
  • False Alarm by René Alejandro Pérez
  • Aire frío by Virgilio Piñera
  • Una caja de zapatos vacía by Luis González-Cruz
  • La Chunga by Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Bodas de sangre by Federico García Lorca
  • La noche de los asesinos by José Triana

    1990s

  • El día que me quieras by José Ignacio Cabrujas
  • La Farce du chateau by Jean Cocteau
  • La Voix humaine by Jean Cocteau
  • La Fantome de Marseille by Jean Cocteau
  • Las galas del difunto by Ramón del Valle-Inclán
  • Ligazón by Ramón del Valle-Inclán
  • The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf by René Ariza
  • A quien pueda interesar o His Master Voice by Myriam Acevedo
  • El extravío by Julio Matas
  • Tres tazas de trigo by Salvador Lemis
  • Matecumbe: el vuelo de un Pedro Pan by Mario Ernesto Sánchez
  • Jesús by Virgilio Piñera
  • Looking at the Lay
  • Hazme de la noche un cuento by Jorge Márquez
  • Lola
  • Los fantasmas de Tulemón by Gilberto Pinto
  • La Peregrina by Héctor Santiago
  • Los fantasmas de Tulemón
  • La muerte y la doncella by Ariel Dorfman

    2000s

  • Lila, La Mariposa by Rolando Ferrer
  • Cenizas sobre el mar by Jose Assad
  • La feria de los inventos by Lilliam Vega and Raquel Carrió
  • El vuelo de Quijote by Lilliam Vega and Raquel Carrió
  • The Immaculate Man
  • La feria de los inventos by Lilliam Vega and Raquel Carrió
  • Una caja de zapatos vacía by Virgilio Piñera
  • El filántropo by Virgilio Piñera, adapted by Raquel Carrio
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare, adapted by Raquel Carrio
  • Yerma by Federico García Lorca, adapted by Raquel Carrio
  • Celestina |La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, adapted by Raquel Carrio
  • Cold Air by Virgilio Piñera, adapted by Raquel Carrio

    2010s

  • Por las tierras de Colón by Guillermo Schmidhuber
  • The Misunderstanding by Albert Camus
  • El No by Virgilio Piñera
  • Al pie del Támesis by Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Años difíciles by Roberto Cossa
  • Alguna cosita que alivie el sufrir by Rene R. Aloma
  • El puerto de los cristales rotos by Mario Ernesto Sánchez and Patricia Suárez
  • Notas que saben a olvido by Araceli Mariel Arreche
  • La última felicidad by Neher Jacqueline Briceño
  • En ningún lugar del mundo by Abel González Melo
  • Bayamesa by Abel González Melo

    2020s

  • ''Ubú Pandemia by Abel González Melo ''

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