Emma Adler Emma Adler is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her work has appeared in Modern Drama, Public Books, and other publications.

History Has Its Eyes on You | Slam Frank and Musical Theater’s Hamilton Bind

Emma Adler

For those who struggled through The Diary of Anne Frank as adolescents, wishing it were more entertaining, 2025 brought a special treat: Andrew Fox and Joel Sinensky’s musical Slam Frank. A send-up of both identity politics and the musical theater that has attempted to cash in on identity politics, Slam Frank imagines what would happen if a woke community theater decided to give the story of Anne Frank the Hamilton...