Pulitzer Finalist 'Here There Are Blueberries' Headed to Broadway Fall 2026
A play about a photo album that surfaced in a Virginia home — filled with snapshots of Nazi concentration camp guards at leisure — is coming to Broadway.
Tectonic Theater Project and a group of producers announced on August 27 that Here There Are Blueberries will begin previews at the Barrymore Theatre on Monday, November 2, 2026, with an opening night set for Monday, November 9, 2026. The run is strictly limited, meaning the producers have set a fixed end date rather than an open-ended engagement. Deadline
The play tells the true story of a German photo album discovered in Virginia, containing rare images of daily life among SS guards at Auschwitz. Conceived and directed by Moisés Kaufman and written by Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, the piece uses documentary material the way Tectonic has built its reputation on — the company, led by Kaufman as founder and artistic director and Matt Joslyn as executive director, is best known for The Laramie Project, which used a similar investigative-theater method to examine the murder of Matthew Shepard.
The road to the Barrymore has been a long one. Here There Are Blueberries had its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in California in the summer of 2022, running July 26 through August 21. A workshop production followed at Miami New Drama. In spring 2023, the play was presented at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., with a cast that included Scott Barrow and Kathleen Chalfant. The Off Broadway premiere came in 2024 at New York Theatre Workshop — the nonprofit incubator on East Fourth Street that has launched a long roster of shows toward larger commercial lives.
Recognition followed. The play was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2025 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the Off Broadway honor given annually by the Lucille Lortel Foundation.
The Broadway production is a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse, the theater where the show first stood up. Producers listed in the announcement are Tectonic Theater Project, Brian & Dayna Lee, Bruce Roberts, Sue Vaccaro, and Ricky Stevens, with Executive Producer 101 Productions, Ltd. The production is mounted in association with Michael Hormel and Midnight Theatricals. The play was devised — meaning shaped through ensemble collaboration rather than written start to finish by a single author — by Scott Barrow, Amy Marie Seidel, Frances Uku, Grant James Varjas, and members of Tectonic Theater Project.
The creative team for the Broadway transfer carries established names. Derek McLane handles scenic design, Dede Ayite costume design, David Lander lighting design, Bobby McElver sound design, and David Bengali projection design — the last of which carries particular weight for a play built around photographs.
For a show that began in a 300-seat theater in La Jolla four years ago, the Barrymore — a Shubert-operated house on 47th Street with roughly 1,050 seats — represents a considerable step up in scale, running costs, and the capitalization, the money raised to get the doors open. The producers have not disclosed a capitalization figure or a closing date for the limited run.
