Here There Are Blueberries will follow seven of its Broadway performances with a panel discussion. The series, Widening the Lens: A Conversation Series, runs from November 12 to January 7 at the Barrymore Theatre, and a ticket to that day's performance is required to attend.
Tectonic Theater Project and the play's co-producers announced the lineup on October 15. The panelists include CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power and civil rights leader Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. More dates are still to be announced, and the producers say both the schedule and the participants may change.
Written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich and directed by Kaufman, the play follows the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's work on an album of Nazi-era photographs that reached its archive in 2007. Each conversation takes up one of the questions the play raises, from memory and complicity to what individuals owe when institutions ask them to look away.
Thursday, November 12, after the 1 p.m. matinee: The Most Dangerous Animal. Cooper sits down with Auschwitz survivor Irene Weiss, whom he first interviewed in 2024 for a 60 Minutes report on the play. Weiss arrived at Auschwitz on the day many of the photographs in the Lili Jacob Album were taken, and she can be identified in them.
Sunday, November 15, after the 3 p.m. matinee: The Detectives of History. CBS Sunday Morning contributor Faith Salie talks to historian Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, whose research at the museum into the Höcker album is the basis of the play, together with Kaufman and Gronich.
Thursday, November 19, after the 7 p.m. performance: Power and Responsibility, presented by FASPE. Power is interviewed by David Goldman, founder and chair of Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics.
Wednesday, December 2, after the 7 p.m. performance: Faith, Conscience & Complicity, presented by FASPE. Barber and the author and pastor Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove join Goldman.
Sunday, December 13, after the 3 p.m. matinee: Victims & Perpetrators: The Legacy of Trauma, presented by FASPE. Gary Kramer, grandson of survivor Lili Jacob, meets Tilman Taube, whose grandfather, an SS doctor, appears in the Höcker album. FASPE principal scholar Thorsten Wagner moderates.
Sunday, December 20, after the 3 p.m. matinee: The Responsibility to Remember. Jonah Platt, actor and host of Being Jewish with Jonah Platt, talks with Sara Bloomfield, the museum's longtime director, about keeping Holocaust memory alive as the survivor generation passes.
Thursday, January 7, after the 7 p.m. performance: History as Teacher. Burns is joined by Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, and by Erbelding.
The Broadway company, led by Michael Cerveris and Kathleen Chalfant, was announced earlier this month. Previews begin on Monday, November 2, opening night is Monday, November 9, and the limited ten-week engagement ends on Sunday, January 10, 2027. Tickets are on sale through Telecharge, and the Barrymore box office, at 243 West 47th Street, opens on Monday, October 19.
