At the beginning of City Theatre’s production of “Birthday Candles” — and on protagonist Ernestine Ashworth’s 17th birthday — this is the wish that her mother gives to her, as they bake a birthday ...

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THUMBNAIL SKETCH: On her 17 th birthday, emo girl with a flair for the dramatic (she’s going to be “Queen Lear” in her high school production), Ernestine Ashworth declares in quick succession that her ...

The calendar is always full of birthdays. Fun fact, the month of September has the busiest two weeks for birthdays of the year. When there's a birthday, there's a need for cake and candles. Meijer has ...

Over Our Head Players will open its production of Birthday Candles on Nov. 21, bringing Noah Haidle’s time-spanning play to ...

Birthday Candles, Noah Haidle’s Broadway dramedy starring Debra Messing as a woman who, over the course of the play’s 90 minutes ages from 17 to 107, has just about all the right ingredients for the ...

Debra Messing doesn’t so much play a character as she plays a concept in Noah Haidle’s new five-hankie comedy “Birthday Candles,” which opened Sunday at Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre. Haidle ...

Apparently, all those times you wondered if blowing out candles on a birthday cake was really sanitary, well, you were right to wonder. Turns out that blowing out candles can transfer an average of ...