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Birthday Candles **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons April 16, 2022: The best thing you can say about Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles is that it manages to stuff a traditional, long and sappy soap opera, which usually goes on for years, into a messy, mushy drama that mercifully ends in under two hours. The second-best thing about the play is Christine Jones's set design, which features a detailed kitchen (where Ernestine bakes her birthday …

SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:43PM on April 16, 2022

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