Here There Are Blueberries

In 2007, a mysterious Nazi-era photo album, retrieved by a U.S. counterintelligence officer out of a trash can in 1946, arrives at the desk of Rebecca Erbelding, a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. Controversy ensues after said photo album makes headlines while a German businessman sees his own grandfather in one of the photographs online.{{Cite web|url=https://lajollaplayhouse.org/show/here-there-are-blueberries/|title=Here There Are Blueberries|access-date=2024-05-10|archive-date=2024-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511064843/https://lajollaplayhouse.org/show/here-there-are-blueberries/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://playbill.com/production/here-there-are-blueberries-off-broadway-new-york-theatre-workshop-2024|title=Here There Are Blueberries (Off-Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, 2024) | Playbill|access-date=2024-05-10|archive-date=2024-05-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511064816/https://playbill.com/production/here-there-are-blueberries-off-broadway-new-york-theatre-workshop-2024|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://reason.com/2024/04/26/here-there-are-blueberries/|title=Review: 'Here There Are Blueberries' investigates a Nazi photo album|first=Ronald|last=Bailey|date=April 26, 2024|access-date=May 10, 2024|archive-date=May 10, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510160346/https://reason.com/2024/04/26/here-there-are-blueberries/|url-status=live}}

The play, under the title The Album: Here There Be Blueberries premiered as a work in progress at the Colony Theatre in 2018.{{Cite web |title=The Album |url=https://www.colonymb.org/thealbum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711045748/https://www.colonymb.org/thealbum |archive-date=July 11, 2020 |access-date= |url-status=usurped |website=Colony Theatre}} The piece subsequently premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2022{{Cite web |date=2022-08-01 |title=Review: La Jolla Playhouse's 'Here There Are Blueberries' a chilling examination of the roots of human cruelty |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/theater/story/2022-08-01/review-la-jolla-playhouses-here-there-are-blueberries-a-chilling-examination-of-the-roots-of-human-cruelty |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |language=en-US}} and played at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2024. The NYTW production received a Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play{{Cite web |last=Culwell-Block |first=Logan |date=April 22, 2025 |title=2025 Drama League Awards Nominations Are Out; Read the Full List |url=https://playbill.com/article/2025-drama-league-awards-nominations-are-out-read-the-full-list |access-date=April 22, 2025 |website=Playbill}} and a Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.{{cite web|title=Death Becomes Her Leads 2025 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations; Read the Full List|first=Logan|last=Culwell-Block|date=April 25, 2025|website=Playbill|url=https://playbill.com/article/death-becomes-her-leads-2025-outer-critics-circle-award-nominations-read-the-full-list|access-date=April 26, 2025}}

It was one of the finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/moises-kaufman-and-amanda-gronich|title=The Pulitzer Prizes|access-date=2024-05-10|archive-date=2024-05-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508193507/https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/moises-kaufman-and-amanda-gronich|url-status=live}}

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• [https://www.heretherareblueberries.com/ Official website]
• [https://www.ushmm.org/teach/holocaust-lesson-plans/here-there-are-blueberries United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]

Category:Plays set in the 2000s

Category:Fiction set in 2007

Category:Plays about the Holocaust

Category:2018 plays

Category:Plays by Moisés Kaufman