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 (Ubú Pandemic) by Abel González Melo ''