In 2023, the movie The Zone of Interest received a scathing review in The New York Times, whose critic dismissed it as “hollow.” Based on a novel by Martin Amis, the movie focused on the family life of an S.S. commandant who ran the Auschwitz concentration camp. The family’s house was on the other side of the camp’s wall, where they lived happily while ignoring the smoke and screams they couldn’t screen out. Is hollow not the starting point for people complicit with such horror? Here There Are Blueberries, which is based on a true story and written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, works in a similar vein. It takes its title from a caption to a snapshot in a Nazi-era photo album—an image of two women who work at Auschwitz holding bowls of blueberries. The album is made public and a German businessman recognizes his grandfather in a photo posted online. The play has been working its way toward Broadway, winning raves—in 2024 it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama—and now it’s playing the Barrymore Theatre for 80 performances. —Laura Jacobs