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Here There Are Blueberries Sets Limited Run on Broadway at the Barrymore

A Pulitzer-finalist that examines a 2007 Nazi photo-album discovery, the play brings documentary theatre to a mainstream Broadway house.

Overview

  • Producers announced a strictly limited Broadway engagement at the Barrymore Theatre with previews beginning November 2 and an opening night on November 9 for an 80-performance run.
  • The transfer was confirmed by Tectonic Theater Project and listed producing partners including Brian and Dayna Lee, Bruce Roberts, Sue Vaccaro, and Ricky Stevens, with casting to be announced.
  • The creative team for the Broadway production names Derek McLane (scenic), Dede Ayite (costumes), David Lander (lighting), Bobby McElver (sound), David Bengali (projections), and Amy Marie Seidel (dramaturgy).
  • The play was devised by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich from a 2007 discovery of a Nazi-era photo album that shows the private, relatively comfortable lives of concentration camp guards near the camps.
  • Here There Are Blueberries evolved from a 2018 workshop into regional premieres and an Off Broadway breakout, and its Pulitzer Prize finalist status and Lucille Lortel win helped clear the path for the Broadway move while raising questions about how societies remember atrocity.