Students can buy tickets to Here There Are Blueberries on Broadway for $10 each from today. An initial allotment of 5,500 subsidized seats is on sale only at the Barrymore Theatre box office, and a further 2,000 New York City public school students and educators will see the play free.
The $10 tickets are limited to two per student, and a valid student ID is needed to buy them. They can be bought in advance for performances across the run, subject to availability. With the free places added, the producers expect the Student Ticket Access Initiative to bring at least 7,500 students and educators to the Pulitzer Prize finalist by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich.
Groups of 10 or more students can reserve seats at the same $10 price through the production’s group request form, giving their preferred performance dates and the number of tickets needed. Requests are reviewed first come, first served while the subsidized allocation lasts. Questions go to tickets@tectonictheaterproject.com.
The free places come through a partnership with the Theatre Program of the New York City Department of Education. More than 2,000 public school students and educators from all five boroughs will attend two special matinees at no cost, and for many of them it will be a first visit to a Broadway theater.
“The opportunity to bring thousands of students to Broadway for just $10 is nothing short of remarkable,” said Susan Lee of Broadway Education Alliance. “To make a production of this significance accessible to so many students is an extraordinary gift, and one that we hope will leave a lasting impact long after they leave the theater.”
The initiative is funded by a group of underwriters that includes The Gray Foundation, the Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation, Marcia & John Goldman, Irwin Jacobs, Claudia & Kevin Bright, Shofar Fund, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, Jeff Schoenfeld & Matt Holbein, Joanna & Robert Meisel, and Laura & Gary Lauder. Fundraising for it is continuing.
Developed by Tectonic Theater Project and directed by Kaufman, the play is built on a true story: in 2007 an album of Nazi-era photographs reached an archivist at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the work of identifying the people in it raised hard questions about the perpetrators and about the rest of us. Michael Cerveris and Kathleen Chalfant lead the Broadway company, and the production has also scheduled a series of post-show talks.
Previews begin on Monday, November 2, at the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street, and opening night is Monday, November 9. The strictly limited ten-week engagement ends on Sunday, January 10, 2027. Other tickets are sold through Telecharge, by phone at 212-239-6200, and at the Barrymore box office.
