Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park presents BIRTHDAY CANDLES, starring a woman aging ...

The Catskill Community Players is celebrating 50 years on the stage with a performance of the play “Birthday Candles” this weekend at the Wieting Theatre in Worcester. Showtimes are scheduled for 7:30 ...

We meet Ernestine Ashworth, the woman around whom Noah Haidle's “Birthday Candles” centers, on her 17th birthday as she declares herself “a rebel against the universe,” a maverick who promises to ...

One cup of butter, half a cup of sugar, two eggs, two teaspoons of vanilla extract, two cups of flour. This recipe ― pinned to a bulletin board ― is the first thing the audience sees when walking into ...

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 ...