Rolling Stone: Controversial Anne Frank Musical Releases Crowdfunded Cast Album

Slam Frank, which reimagines her story through an “intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens,” posted the recording in advance of the play’s off-Broadway return"

By Frank DiGiacomo
July 7, 2026

When Slam Frank opened last September at the Asylum, a 150-seat off-Broadway performance space in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen district, it had no marketing budget and no marquee actors in its cast. What it did have was an out-there, provocative storyline — a progressive theater troupe presents Anne Frank as a pansexual Latina with a Black mother, a neurodivergent gay father, an ultra-orthodox Jewish sister, and a gender-fluid love interest as they hide from the Nazis — and a vibrant hip-hop-meets-pop songbook studded with Broadway Easter eggs.