Dear Friends,

Welcome to Seattle Rep. As our region’s leading producing resident theater founded in 1963, it has been our long-standing mission to collaborate with extraordinary artists to create timely and relevant productions that feature local theater makers working alongside peers from around the world on plays made here in Seattle. And, as with today’s performance, we have an important history of hosting the national tours of distinctly crafted, can’t-miss theater pieces, like last season’s Eddie Izzard Hamlet or the Montreal-based cirque performance collective The 7 Fingers and their jaw-dropping show Duel Reality. Today, we are privileged to host the esteemed Tectonic Theater Project’s unforgettable and urgently relevant Here There Are Blueberries.

I’m grateful you are here to experience this deeply moving and renowned exploration of memory, history, and responsibility. Tectonic’s bold, investigative approach to storytelling invites audiences to witness and wrestle with questions at the center of our humanity. Their work has shaped contemporary theater for nearly three decades, from the groundbreaking The Laramie Project, a revealing portrait of a Wyoming community’s response to the hateful murder of Matthew Shepard, to the centuries-spanning investigation of Beethoven’s genius 33 Variations, which earned Tony Award nominations and Broadway acclaim.

^{Marrick Smith and Folami Williams in Here There Are Blueberries. | Photo by Morgan Sophia Photography}

Tectonic’s productions have continually expanded the possibilities of theater-making using their trademark “Moment Work,” which incorporates a rigorous process of research and collaboration in a laboratory environment. In Here There Are Blueberries, writer-director Moisés Kaufman and co-writer Amanda Gronich have crafted a drama that is a meticulously researched and gripping detective story. The work begins with a discovery made in 2007 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: a photo album unexpectedly donated to the archives, containing images not of victims, but snapshots of perpetrators. In the play, we join the curators in their examination of the album, and the reflection the photographs provoke within us. How do we see those who commit harm if they resemble us? What do we allow ourselves to ignore? How does complicity take root?

The impact of this stirring production has been profound, with a sold-out New York premiere, and a tour spanning continents. Here There Are Blueberries was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist, winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, two-time Helen Hayes Award winner, and was named one of The Wall Street Journal’s “10 Best Plays of 2024.” These honors recognize not only its artistry but its urgency. We’re proud to present the play’s Seattle premiere and look forward to the conversations that will ensue.

I hope you will return soon for the spring side of our season to enjoy the dynamically different productions we are preparing for you. Up next are two Seattle-made premieres of recent Broadway sensations: Amy Herzog’s cathartic drama Mary Jane and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ incendiary comedy Appropriate. Then, we kick off summer with the return of our season opener The Play That Goes Wrong, giving our cast one more chance to get it right! I look forward to welcoming you back to Seattle Rep.

Until then,

Dámaso Rodríguez
Artistic Director

See Here There Are Blueberries for yourself, playing at Seattle Rep Jan. 21–Feb. 15, 2026.

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^{Header image: Cast of Here There Are Blueberries performing at Miami New Drama (December 2025). Photo by Morgan Sophia.}