The Review For Here There Are Blueberries Are In!
A collection of photographs, a shocking discovery and a story that demands to be told.
Here There Are Blueberries is bringing real-life history to the Broadway stage! From Tectonic Theatre Project, this Pulitzer Prize finalist explores the discovery of an album of photographs showing Nazi officers enjoying themselves at a resort just moments away from a concentration camp during World War II.
Co-created by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich (The Laramie Project), the play first made waves Off-Broadway, winning the 2025 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. Now, with its Broadway premiere at the Barrymore Theatre, audiences are getting another chance to experience this thought-provoking production. But have the critics been moved by its arrival on the Great White Way? Let's take a look at what they're saying...
Here There Are Blueberries Critic Reviews
"Restrained, precise, and built from real photographs, Here There Are Blueberries makes a gripping case that understanding the Holocaust means looking its perpetrators in the face." - 1 Minute Critic
"Indeed, as we all try to never forget,' this bracing play forces us no matter our religion to remember that what once seemed unthinkable no longer is!" - Citour.com
"We can no longer look away, or hold history at arm's length. When it comes to atrocities taking place in our view, this moving and timely drama suggests, we are all culpable." - Culture Sauce
"The play, about a mysterious real-life cache of one-of-a-kind Auschwitz photos submitted to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007, remains as intriguing as ever and with source material as grotesquely mesmerizing as these candid snapshots, how could it not?" - Deadline
"The play, about a mysterious real-life cache of one-of-a-kind Auschwitz photos submitted to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007, remains as intriguing as ever and with source material as grotesquely mesmerizing as these candid snapshots, how could it not?" - New York Stage Review
"Here There Are Butterflies' offers us a manageable way to learn about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and thus approach the Holocaust itself, without sensationalizing, glorifying or trivializing it." - New York Theater
"It's the show's only detour into the more familiar form of a Holocaust narrativethe version where we rely exclusively on images of suffering to communicate the extent of the horrors at play. But that still lets us dream up the devil pulling the strings from behind the camera. The real horror comes when the camera flips around and the person standing there looks just like you." - TheaterMania
"A number of extraordinarily painful moments punctuate Here There Are Blueberries,' the docudrama about curatorial researchers" - The New York Times
