Slam Frank
A yellow star is born in Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky’s uproarious musical satire, in which a hyperwoke theater company reimagines the story of Anne Frank as an inspirational Afro-Latin hip-hop tuner that centers postcolonial and genderqueer identities. Following a developmental run at Asylum last season that generated enough buzz to electrocute an elephant, the production now moves to the East Village's Orpheum Theatre for a proper run, still directed by Sam LaFrage. The cast includes Asylum cast members Olivia Bernábe, Alex Lewis, Austen Horne, Rocky Paterra, John Anker Bow, Jaz Zepatos and Walker Stovall, as well as newcomer Amelia Louise Barr. Its gleeful mix of outrageousness and outrage is surprisingly complex, and leaves nobody unscathed. As timely provocations go, this one’s a slam dunk.—Adam Feldman