THe Hollywood Reporter - Controversial Musical ‘Slam Frank’ Announces Move to Off-Broadway With Provocative Campaign

Tickets for the play, which reimagines Anne Frank’s story through an ‘intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens,’ go on sale June 12.

BY FRANK DIGIACOMO‍ ‍JUNE 12, 2026 7:00AM

The most incendiary musical comedy of 2025 will advance to the off-Broadway Orpheum Theatre in October, and its creators are marking the show’s return with, not surprisingly, two provocative events.  

The box office for Slam Frank, which reimagines Anne Frank’s story through an “intersectional, multiethnic, genderqueer, Afro-Latin hip-hop lens,” according to the producers, opens on June 12, the birthday of the Jewish teen whose diary of her family’s life hiding from the Nazis became a classic of Holocaust literature.