Miniaci Performing Arts Center

Tags

Alexis Fishman, Anne Being Frank, Anne Frank, Aventura Arts & Cultural Center, Holocaust, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Miniaci Performing Arts Center, Ron Elisha, theatre, YI Love Jewish/Yiddishkayt Initiative

Anne Being Frank
Reimagines an Iconic Story to Pose Philosophical Questions

The Award-winning play will be presented at 3 Venues in South Florida

“An important play” … “a powerful reminder” … “heartbreaking” … “chilling” … “very moving” … “thought provoking” ~ Broadway Radio

For Immediate Release:
Contact: Carol Kassie
Carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244
Contact: Jenna Swanson
Jswanson@piersongrant.com / 954-776-1999, ext. 235

October 22, 2024

AVENTURA, FL: YI Love Jewish in partnership with the City of Aventura, and in collaboration with the Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center and the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts will present Anne Being Frank, a new play by Israeli-born Australian playwright Ron Elisha. Directed by Amanda Brooke Lerner, the production will run at three venues in South Florida: November 9^th (at the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center), November 10^th (in the Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center) and November 12^th (at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center).

Performed Off-Broadway to rave reviews, this one-woman show starring Alexis Fishman is a total reimagining of the iconic story of Anne Frank. The play, which received the 2023 Broadway World – Best Production award, takes place within three worlds: Anne and her family’s secret annex hiding place, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where Anne died, and an imagined world where Anne survives WWII to go over the manuscript of her diary with her editor at a publishing house in Manhattan. But now, with her devastating new insight into the depths of human depravity, she has rewritten her entire diary at the great personal cost of constantly having to justify her choices to her editor, who wants to maintain the purity and innocence of the original story.

Anne Being Frank poses the philosophical question: “Had Anne known precisely what was in store for her and her family at the hands of the Nazis, would she still have written, ‘In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart’?”

Australian-born Fishman is a Helpmann Award-nominated actor and singer who currently lives in New York. She is a board member of 3GNY, an educational non-profit for the descendants of Holocaust Survivors and tells her grandparents’ story in New York public schools.

Anne Being Frank is presented as a commemoration of Kristallnacht by YI Love Jewish and Executive Producer Marc Levin.

Tickets for Anne Being Frank are on sale now at all three venues and can be purchased online at yilovejewish.org/events. Ticket prices begin at $52.

For more information about Anne Being Frank, to speak with anyone involved in the production, or to arrange to see a performance, please contact Carol Kassie at carol@carolkassie.com / 561-445-9244 or Jenna Swanson at Jswanson@piersongrant.com / 954-776-1999, ext. 235.

Anne Being Frank contains adult language or content.

Anne Being Frank
A New Play by Ron Elisha
Saturday, November 9 at 8 pm
at The Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
3385 NE 188^th Street
Aventura, FL 33180
Sunday, November 10 at 8 pm
in The Rinker Playhouse at the Kravis Center
701 Okeechobee Boulevard
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 pm
at Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center
3100 Ray Ferrero Jr. Boulevard
Davie, FL 33314
Tickets: $52 and up.
To purchase tickets at any of the above venues, and/or for more information visit
https://yilovejewish.org/events