Blowing out birthday candles is fun, but your spit is the icing on the cake — quite literally. Scientists say that puckering up and making a wish sends varying amounts of bacteria flying onto ...

The equally hilarious and heart-wrenching play Birthday Candles threads together the protagonist Ernestine’s birthdays from 17 to 101, celebrated with her mother’s golden butter cake, five ...

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 ...

Debra Messing stars in the Roundabout Theater Company production of “Birthday Candles,” in which she portrays a woman over 90 years of her life. Kholood Eid for The New York Times ...

Those colorful candles burning brightly atop a cake may look lovely, but it turns out blowing them out has some pretty disgusting side effects.

Like life, “Birthday Candles” is rooted in loss and laughter. Haidle's frequent pairing of sorrow and humor makes for an overly sentimental narrative. Directing with a sure but gentle touch ...

Roundabout Theatre Company on Wednesday announced that its spring production of 'Birthday Candles,' starring Debra Messing, Andre Braugher and Enrico Colantoni, has moved to the fall due to the ...

In New York, where sentiment is eschewed and actual feelings are seen as signs of weakness, Noah Haidle’s “Birthday Candles” was dismissed by most critics when the play opened on Broadway ...

A woman’s spontaneous gesture at a restaurant — inviting a little boy to blow out her birthday candles — became a viral moment and a memory two families will never forget.

In emotionally rich ‘Birthday Candles,’ a woman shapes her identity as she bakes her annual cake Kate Fry, playing the heroine of the Northlight Theatre play from youth to centenarian, makes ...

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 ...