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Jul 16, 2010
Fringe Q&A: Sabrina Mandell of Handbook for Hosts
“Film-noir meets radio in a comic cocktail collage ignited by Esquire’s 1949 Handbook for Hosts. Consummate recipes from a time when men were men, dames wore gloves, and sloe gin fizzed.” That’s the official description of Handbook for Hosts, the Happenstance Theater production at this year’s Fringe festival. The show is gaining fans, like our own Chris Klimek, in Fringe-going circles. We asked Sabrina Mandell, the artistic co-director of Happenstance Theater, a few questions….