Teatro Avante

Teatro Avante
Address 744 S.W. 8th Street, 2nd Floor
Miami, Florida, 33130
United States
Coordinates 25°45′57″N 80°12′24″W / 25.765820°N 80.206619°W / 25.765820; -80.206619
Opened 1979

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.[1] According to Sánchez, Teatro Avante was created in order to provide a venue for Spanish-language art theater in Miami.[1] The company's first production was the play Electra Garrigó by the Cuban playwright Virgilio Piñera.[1] 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 named was changed to International Hispanic Theater Festival of Miami.[2] 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.[3]

Teatro Avante has also represented the United States in international theater festivals,[4] and it held a residency in 2009 at Spain's Festival de Teatro de Villa de Molina.[1]

Works or publications

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Teatro Avante". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  2. "Teatro Avante". Cuban Theater Digital Archive. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  3. "XVIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival". Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  4. Finding aid author: Fernando Espino (2013). "Guide to the Teatro Avante Collection". Prepared for the University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, FL. Retrieved April 9, 2014. This article incorporates text from this source, which has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 and GNU Free Documentation license.


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