"Here There Are Blueberries," a Pulitzer Prize finalist docudrama about a real and unsettling 2007 discovery, opens on Broadway tonight at the Barrymore Theatre after previews that began November 2. The play, written by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich and directed by Kaufman, runs for a limited 10 weeks through January 10.
The work dramatizes events surrounding a photo album compiled by Nazi officers stationed at Auschwitz, which was anonymously donated to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007. The photographs, showing SS personnel at leisure rather than at their duties, became a focal point for historians and museum staff grappling with how to present perpetrators' own documentation of their lives alongside the atrocities they carried out.
A cast built for the material
The Broadway production stars Michael Cerveris, Kathleen Chalfant, Montego Glover and Conrad Ricamora. The play has had a sustained development path before reaching Broadway, with earlier productions at Miami New Drama in 2018, La Jolla Playhouse in 2022, and an off-Broadway run at New York Theatre Workshop in 2024, each building on audience and critical response from the last.
What to watch for
No Broadway-specific reviews had been published as of this morning, with tonight's opening marking the production's first exposure to the city's full critical corps. Given the subject matter's weight and the play's awards pedigree heading in, early reaction is likely to shape whether the limited run gets extended beyond its scheduled January close. The production's commercial prospects will also test whether Broadway audiences are willing to turn out for serious historical docudrama amid a season otherwise dominated by splashier commercial fare.
