A theatre troupe remakes Anne Frank's story as an Afro-Latin hip-hop satire.
Inspired by a viral social media debate, Slam Frank is a satirical musical about a progressive theatre company attempting to reinvent The Diary of Anne Frank for contemporary audiences. The company transforms Anne Frank's story into an intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, decolonized Afro-Latin hip-hop musical, creating a play-within-a-play that examines the language, conventions, and assumptions of modern theatrical adaptation.
The musical features a book by Joel Sinensky and music and lyrics by Andrew Fox, who conceived the project after a widely discussed 2022 Twitter thread. The production is directed by Sam LaFrage. Fox's score draws on hip-hop musical traditions while the show's meta-theatrical structure places the adaptation process itself at the center of the story.
The Off-Broadway production plays at the Orpheum Theatre beginning September 17, 2026, with an opening night on October 4 and a scheduled engagement through November 30, 2026. The production follows an earlier developmental run at Asylum NYC and marks the show's largest New York presentation to date.
