The most exciting musical comedy of 2025 will head to the Orpheum Theater off-Broadway in October, and its creators are celebrating the show’s return with, not surprisingly, two provocative events.
Box office for Hello Frank, Which reimagines the story of Anne Frank through a “multi-ethnic, multiracial Afro-Latino hip-hop lens,” according to producers, opens June 12, the birthday of the Jewish teen whose memoir of her family’s life hiding from the Nazis has become a classic of Holocaust literature.
The following week, on June 19 — Juneteenth — the show’s producers will host what they call “Off-Broadway’s first official late-night show Pro-Diversity, Pre-July, Cismasc-Confirmed, Anti-Capitalism, LatinX, Anne Frank “Fiesta de Quinceañera” At the Orpheum on Second Avenue in Manhattan’s East Village.
Theatergoers attending the event, which begins at 6 p.m., will have the opportunity to purchase seats from the $50 and $70 pricing tiers for $36, and all other seats will be discounted at $36. (A show actor explains that the number 36 is a factor of 18, which in Hebrew numerology symbolizes life.) Guests and special offers are also promised. Additional information about tickets can be found here.
The film is directed by Sam LeFrage Hello Frank It will begin on September 17, the one-year anniversary of the exhibition’s developmental run, at The Asylum downtown. The musical officially opens on October 4 and runs through November 30.
Hello Frank Inspired by an actual viral Twitter thread in 2022 that questioned whether Anne Frank acknowledged her “white privilege,” it imagines what happens when a progressive community theater company transforms Frank’s story into an awakening tale. It was co-written by Joel Sininsky and Andrew Fox, who wrote music that he said was influenced by a wide range of artists, including Kanye West, Stephen Sondheim, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jason Robert Brown and Wilson Phillips. Fox also said that the play’s politics are deliberately far-fetched, but that its main target is the transgressions of identity politics.
Fox is also leading an Instagram tease for the play accountwhich now has 98,000 followers and helped generate sold-out crowds at The Asylum without the benefit of a marketing budget.
Critics called Hello Frank One of the boldest theatrical experiments of 2025. A precedent New York Times Theater critic Ben Brantley praised the musical on social media, calling it “the most important show ever.”timesIt was called “the funniest parody of the left” in our Best Comedy of 2025 roundup. Zachary StewartManya Theater“If you love theater and want it to once again become a safe space for dangerous thinking, the best thing you can do is buy a ticket,” he wrote.Hello FrankAnd laugh your ass off.”
