Performing arts school moves ahead

SANDPOINT — It’s time for a cultural pop quiz: Name three international theater hot spots. Two obvious choices would be New York with its Broadway and London with its West End. You’re forgiven if you missed adding Sandpoint, Idaho, to that list.

For the second year in a row, Jesús Quintero, artistic director for the Hope, Idaho-based American Laboratory Theater, is hosting artists from around the globe as part of an incremental approach to establishing Sandpoint as a Western U.S. center for the performing arts.

“These are the first steps of our dream becoming real,” said Quintero, whose involvement as an actor, director and educator has carried him to more than 10 countries on three continents. “The idea is to get the best teachers in the world to come and share their work.”

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