Gallery | Images from the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival

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  The XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival begins July 9 and runs through July 27, with most performances at the Carnival Studio Theater in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts or Prometeo Theatre at Miami Dade College's Wolfson campus. VICENTA CASAÑ

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  Teatro Avante founder Mario Ernesto Sánchez is artistic director of the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival and the man who keeps the festival going year after year. HECTOR GABINO / EL NUEVO HERALD STAFF

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  <em>El llanto</em>, a dance-theater production by Octubre Teatral of Barcelona, Spain, opens the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival.

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  Prometeo Theatre of Miami will perform Jacinto Benavente's <em>Los intereses creados</em>, about a crafty 16th century servant, at the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival.

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  The Alquibla Teatro of Murcia, Spain, will perform Laila Ripoll's <em>El día más feliz de nuestra vida</em>, a play about triplets who share a First Communion day and a wedding day, at the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival.

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  Companía de Pedro María Sánchez of Madrid, Spain, is bringing Calderón de la Barca's <em>Amar y ser amado, o la divina Filotea</em> to the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival.

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  Slovenia's Ljubljana City Theatre is bringing its production of José Sanchís Sinisterra's <em>Ay, Carmela</em> to the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival.

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  Spanish playwright José Sanchís Sinisterra will receive the Lifetime Achievement in the Performing Arts Awards at the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival on July 19, after the performance of his play <em>Ay, Carmela</em>.

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  The Komilfo Teatro of Lima, Peru, will present its production of <em>La importancia del abrazo</em> at the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival.

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  Miami's Teatro Avante will close the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival with its production of Fernando de Rojas' <em>La Celestina</em>, adapted by Raquel Carrió.