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 |
| 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
- Sanchez, Mario Ernesto; et al. (1995). Matecumbe : el vuelo de un Pedro Pan. Miami, FL: GC Video Productions. OCLC 847755647.
Notes and references
- 1 2 3 4 "Teatro Avante". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Teatro Avante". Cuban Theater Digital Archive. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- ↑ "XVIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival". Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- The Teatro Avante collection is available at the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries. This archival collection contains documents from Teatro Avante, including show files, a talent directory, photographs, and documents from the International Hispanic Theater Festival, as well as news clippings and reviews.