THEATRE + COMEDY

The Houston Family Arts Center (HFAC) presents six performances of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Diary of Anne Frank, performed by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., Feb. 27 through March 8, 2009. All performances take place at Texas Repertory Theatre, 14243 Stuebner Airline Road in Spring, Texas, just north of FM 1960 in the Northwood Plaza.

The Diary of Anne Frank  tells the compelling story of a gifted and intensely lyrical girl who catalogues with astonishing honesty the fear, hope, laughter, and grief of two years’ existence in the secret annex of her father’s business in Amsterdam. Her diary gives us a glimpse into the claustrophobic terror of the Holocaust.

Adapted from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, edited by Otto Frank. Winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Critics Circle Award, and virtually every other coveted prize of the theatre.  Very few plays have moved the Broadway critics to write such glowing notices, receiving the unanimous acclaim of all the top New York reviewers.

The NY Times, said, "A lovely tender drama…Strange how the shining spirit of a young girl now dead can filter down through the years and inspire a group of theatrical professionals in a foreign land."

The NY Post called it "…a moving document on the stage." The NY Daily News said, "There is so much beauty, warm humor, gentle pity…in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK that it is difficult to imagine how this play could be contained in one set on one stage…this is a fine drama."

Directed by Michael Steinbach.

PERFORMANCE DATES: February 27 - March 8, 2009.

Recommended for ages 10 and over

Click here to visit the website of the Anne Frank Museum.

Click here to visit the website of the Holocaust Museum Houston.

Don't miss this moving production of the story of Anne Frank, perhaps the most famous victim of the Holocaust.