{"id":265110,"date":"2026-06-13T00:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265110\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T00:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:15:22","slug":"slam-frank-to-return-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/265110\/","title":{"rendered":"Slam Frank to Return Off-Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1841652 size-large\" title=\"Olivia Berna\u0301be as Anita v5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Olivia-Bernabe-as-Anita-v5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Olivia Berna\u0301be starred as Anita in the initial run of Slam Frank at AsylumNYC.<br \/>(\u00a9 Jasper Lewis Photography)<\/p>\n<p>Slam Frank, the musical comedy that reimagines Holocaust diarist Anne Frank as \u201cAnita Franco,\u201d a genderqueer Latinx girlboss spitting rhymes like Lin-Manuel Miranda, will open for a full off-Broadway run. The show begins previews at the Orpheum Theatre on September 17 ahead of an official opening night October 4. Performances are scheduled through November 30.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky conceived, composed, and co-wrote the show, which was inspired by the viral Twitter question, \u201cDid Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?\u201d In response, they have created an \u201cintersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop musical,\u201d that satirizes the worst excesses of the institutional theater during the Great Awokening. Sam LaFrage returns to direct after helming last year\u2019s developmental run at Asylum NYC.<\/p>\n<p>TheaterMania\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/news\/review-in-slam-frank-anne-frank-gets-the-hamilton-treatment_1806777\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">review of Slam Frank<\/a> proclaimed, \u201cThis is the closest thing off-Broadway has to an episode of\u00a0South Park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casting for the off-Broadway return of Slam Frank has not yet been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>However, the producers will be hosting Off-Broadway\u2019s First Annual Official Belated Pro-Diversity, Pre-Julyteenth, Cismasc-Affirming, Anti-Capitalist, LatinX Anne Frank Fiesta de Quincea\u00f1era Box Office Discount Ticket Release Event (2026) at the Orpheum Box Office on June 19th at 6pm. \u200b There will be special guests and performances, plus a $36 ticket price for select seats, with the remaining seats at a $36 discount. \u200b This special pricing will only be available in person at the theater on June 19th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Berna\u0301be starred as Anita in the initial run of Slam Frank at AsylumNYC.(\u00a9 Jasper Lewis Photography) Slam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-265110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}