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Birthday Candles is a play by Noah Haidle. It was originally scheduled to open on April 2, 2020, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It subsequently ran at the American Airlines Theatre from March 18 to May 29, 2022, starring Debra Messing as Ernestine Ashworth and directed by Messing's Tisch School of the Arts classmate Vivienne Benesch.
10 Apr 2022 · Words are funny like that. Noah Haidle’s “Birthday Candles,” which opened on Broadway Sunday night at the American Airlines Theater, tries to build poignancy and depth through moments that...
Noah Haidle. This poignant and funny Broadway hit, about the extraordinary moments that make up one woman’s ordinary life, explores the highlights and heartbreaks of 100 years in just 90 minutes. “For my money, Birthday Candles is precisely why people go to the theater.”. – Chicago Tribune.
Playwright Noah Hailde talks to rolling out about the play “Birthday Candles,” his process of playwrighting, and the deeper meaning behind what the play is a...
18 Mac 2022 · Noah Haidle makes his Broadway debut with a poignant new play as fearless in scope as it is tremendous in heart. Meet the cast below! Debra Messing (Ernestine) Debra Messing is an Emmy...
18 Sep 2023 · In roughly 100 tear-jerking minutes, Noah Haidle’s “Birthday Candles” manages to capture one of the defining dichotomies of human existence. Our lives are utterly unique, yet they are also — save a very few — equally unremarkable as we cycle from childhood to adulthood to dotage.
“Non-naturalism is my jam,” says playwright Noah Haidle, speaking of his play Birthday Candles, now making its Broadway premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre.
