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Diary of Anne Frank
Author(s): Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich
The original Broadway stage version of the world famous diary Anne Frank kept while she and her family and others were hidden from the Nazis in an attic in Amsterdam, Holland.
Format: Drama
Cast Size: 5M/5F
Snapshot
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Winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Critics Circle Award, and virtually every other coveted prize of the theatre.
For additional reading, see Gene A. Plunka, Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 101–113.
A study guide is available on the Park Square Theatre website.
Original or Prominent Production: Cort Theatre, New York, October 5, 1955
Original Source Material: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank Original Language: English