The Diary Of Anne Frank
by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Wendy Ann Kesselman, Wendy Kesselman

Broadway
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Highlights

120 mins 1940s/WWII Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Role(s) for Teen(s) Interior Set Period Costumes Adaptation

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize Tony Award

Winner! 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 1956 Tony Award for Best Play Nominee: Five 1956 Tony Awards Nominee: Two 1998 Tony Awards

Synopsis

In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit and determination.

An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence – their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief.

Each day of these two dark years, Anne’s voice shines through: “When I write, I shake off all my cares.

But I want to achieve more than that.

I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met.

I want to go on living even after my death!” This is a new adaptation for a new generation.

Press Reviews

"Undeniably moving. It shatters the heart. The evening never lets us forget the inhuman darkness waiting to claim its incandescently human heroine."

— New York Times

"An extraordinary theatrical adventure! Go and remember."

— New York Post

"A powerful new version that moves the audience to gasp, then tears."

— Associated Press

"One of the year’s ten best."

— Time

Characters

Character
ANNE FRANK
OTTO FRANK
EDITH FRANK
MARGOT FRANK
MR. VAN DAAN
MRS. VAN DAAN
PETER VAN DAAN
MR. DUSSEL
MR. KRALER
MIEP GIES
FIRST MAN
SECOND MAN
THIRD MAN

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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK - Trailer

Publication

Year 2026
Binding Paperback
Pages 68
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822217183
ISBN-10 082221718X
LCCN 2006455205
LCC MLCS 2006/45143 (P)

The Diary Of Anne Frank is a adaptation play written by Albert Hackett and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2026).

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