Here There Are Blueberries
Opening Night: November 9, 2026
Theater: Barrymore Theatre
Website: www.herethereareblueberries.com
2007. A mysterious photo album arrives at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Nazi-era images unlike any that have been seen before. A relentless search begins into the history trapped in the lens. As the album makes headlines, questions surface that ignite a worldwide reckoning. Based on true events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs—what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity.
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For those who haven’t seen it yet, though, the experience is likely to be educational, sorrowful and even enlightening. The project contains great passion and seriousness, as well as a sense of the long, painfully maintained stewardship over this history. (Kaufman’s own father survived the Holocaust.)
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Yet this strong ensemble of performers do generate a feeling of direct connection with the audience, close at times to intimacy. The most successful in this regard is the esteemable Kathleen Chalfant, a performer of rare grace who always feels like she is speaking directly to you. Michelle Beck is similarly strong, while Scott Barrow does careful work in multiple historical roles while steering clear of direct impersonation. Tony Award winner Michael Ceveris is also excellent, most especially as a descendant of Nazi officers struggling with his family inheritance.
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The academic precision and only occasional indulgence in theatricality are what make Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s documentary play Here There Are Blueberries a powerful piece of historical drama. Conceived and directed by Kaufman, it comes to Broadway fully settled following developmental productions (including the 2024 off-Broadway premiere at New York Theatre Workshop) that made it a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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In the end, Here There Are Blueberries has sailed past its own here-and-there shortcomings to land on a final thought, artfully told and with clarity of conviction: Just imagine how many untold boxes of forgotten family memorabilia and grim relics are waiting to be discovered, with secrets as efficiently hidden as those sealed away in the human heart?
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As a museum piece, the play may be effective. Its producers have created a robust student ticket initiative. But as theater, it musters significant resources — a sterling cast, a lease on a Broadway theater — to arrive at a point with which most audience members should be well familiar. And it keeps those blinders on with regard to the world around it.
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Playing museum archivists, the actors use the photographs to lead us through a history of perversion. Unfortunately, this dialogue is delivered with great drama. Only the legendary Kathleen Chalfant manages to bring a modicum of understatement to the production. Otherwise, the actors appear to be trying to upstage the photographs, which is impossible.
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For that reason, audiences who feel compelled to examine the records from a theater seat—who perhaps find themselves yet again confronted with a photograph of a malnourished and naked corpse being flung into a pit—will have a hard time not thinking that what Here There Are Blueberries presents remains barely bearable, but nonetheless must be remembered so it never recurs.
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Conceived and directed by Kaufman (and devised with members of the Tectonic Theater Project), Here There Are Blueberries proves both a riveting detective story and profound examination of what Hannah Arendt so memorably described as the “banality of evil.”
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Here There Are Blueberries is a masterpiece, a stirring, evocative, and politically urgent work of art that exposes what happens when evil becomes ordinary. It teaches us that we cannot sit idly by, we cannot pass on the blame, and we cannot look away.
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While “Blueberries” is no big-fun Broadway night out, obviously, it likely will slowly burrow its way into your head, both during and after seeing it, and then take up residence there for the long haul.
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Cunningham plays Rebecca with a journalistic doggedness and an open heart, much like Holly Hunter in “Broadcast News.” Though, unsurprisingly, there is no humor in “Blueberries.” Kathleen Chalfant lends gravitas to her smart colleague Judy Cohen, and as Taube, Ricamora is world weary and layered as man questioning his memories of his grandfather. Ricamora is an actor who’s always had a skill for naturally traversing different times, places and cultures. Such is the caliber of this heavy-hitting ensemble that it also includes Michael Cerveris, Montego Glover, Michelle Beck, Brandon Flynn and Scott Barrow.
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Here There Are Blueberries gains its power from its even-keeled approach, eschewing the maudlin for a professorial restraint. As the researchers gather new information and facts accumulate like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the devastating bigger picture comes into focus. We can no longer look away, or hold history at arm’s length. When it comes to atrocities taking place in our view, this moving and timely drama suggests, we are all culpable.
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