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

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.

[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.