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Slam Frank to Return Off-Broadway

Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky’s satirical woke musical begins previews at the Orpheum Theatre in September.

Zachary Stewart

Zachary Stewart

| Off-Broadway |

June 12, 2026

Olivia Bernábe starred as Anita in the initial run of Slam Frank at AsylumNYC.
(© Jasper Lewis Photography)

Slam Frank, the musical comedy that reimagines Holocaust diarist Anne Frank as “Anita Franco,” 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.

Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky conceived, composed, and co-wrote the show, which was inspired by the viral Twitter question, “Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?” In response, they have created an “intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop musical,” that satirizes the worst excesses of the institutional theater during the Great Awokening. Sam LaFrage returns to direct after helming last year’s developmental run at Asylum NYC.

TheaterMania’s review of Slam Frank proclaimed, “This is the closest thing off-Broadway has to an episode of South Park.”

Casting for the off-Broadway return of Slam Frank has not yet been revealed.

However, the producers will be hosting Off-Broadway’s First Annual Official Belated Pro-Diversity, Pre-Julyteenth, Cismasc-Affirming, Anti-Capitalist, LatinX Anne Frank Fiesta de Quinceañera Box Office Discount Ticket Release Event (2026) at the Orpheum Box Office on June 19th at 6pm. ​ There will be special guests and performances, plus a $36 ticket price for select seats, with the remaining seats at a $36 discount. ​ This special pricing will only be available in person at the theater on June 19th.

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