Here There Are Blueberries opened on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre on Monday, November 9, and its curtain call belonged as much to the people the play is about as to the company that plays them, since four of them came onstage to take a bow beside their counterparts, among them Rebecca Erbelding, the historian who discovered the album at the center of the story.
Erbelding was joined by Judy Cohen, a fellow archivist who argued for the album's importance; Sara Bloomfield, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and Tilman Taube, whose grandfather, an SS officer, appears in its photographs. It is not the first time the production has put its real subjects in the room this month: Erbelding went onstage at the first preview, and nineteen Holocaust survivors attended a performance on November 5.
The evening was photographed by Valerie Terranova and Andy Henderson, whose pictures from the red carpet show the company together before the performance and, among the guests, John Lithgow, Caissie Levy and Edie Falco.
The play is written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich and directed by Kaufman, and it is produced by Tectonic Theater Project with Brian & Dayna Lee, Bruce Roberts, Sue Vaccaro and Ricky Stevens. The ensemble is Scott Barrow, Michelle Beck, Michael Cerveris, Kathleen Chalfant, Delia Cunningham, Brandon Flynn, Montego Glover and Conrad Ricamora. Broadway is the latest stop for a piece that was first workshopped at Miami New Drama, premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 2022 and played Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in 2024, where it won two Lucille Lortel Awards, Outstanding Play among them, on the way to becoming a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Previews began on Monday, November 2, and the run is a strictly limited ten-week engagement that ends on Sunday, January 10, 2027, which leaves nine weeks of performances after the opening. The production photographs released for the run are in our first look, and what the critics made of the opening is collected in our review roundup.
The production has also released a short reel from the night, filmed on the red carpet before the performance and at the bows.
If the player does not load, watch the opening-night reel on YouTube.
Tickets are sold through Telecharge, by phone at 212-239-6200 and at the Barrymore Theatre box office. For more information, visit the official website.
