נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>“<a href="https://babka.social/tags/SlamFrank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SlamFrank</span></a>... tramples sensitive taboos with its premise alone - a community <a href="https://babka.social/tags/theater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theater</span></a> performs a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/hiphop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiphop</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/musical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musical</span></a> about <a href="https://babka.social/tags/AnneFrank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnneFrank</span></a> and her family during their years hiding from the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a>. You are almost guaranteed some mid-show walkouts, which make a statement in a space small enough that the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/actors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>actors</span></a> will definitely notice.</p><p>The Franks and their plight are in no way the targets of this show’s derision. But Andrew Fox, who wrote the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/lyrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lyrics</span></a>, and Joel Sinensky, who wrote the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a>, do use Anne and her family to say some pointed, politically incendiary things about the sanctification of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/identitypolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>identitypolitics</span></a>, empty <a href="https://babka.social/tags/progressivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>progressivism</span></a>, the logical endpoint of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/tribalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tribalism</span></a>, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/victimhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>victimhood</span></a> as a permanent stance and egregious failures to learn the lessons of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>.</p><p>Inspired by a 2022 <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> debate over the “<a href="https://babka.social/tags/whiteprivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whiteprivilege</span></a>” of Anne Frank, who was 15 when she died in a concentration camp in 1945..."</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/theater/slam-frank-crooked-cross-review.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/10/24/theater</span><span class="invisible">/slam-frank-crooked-cross-review.html</span></a></p>