Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’


              John Earl Jelks, left, and Debra Messing appear during a performance of Roundabout Theatre Company's "Birthday Candles," a play by Noah Haidle. (Joan Marcus/Polk PR. via AP)
            
              Debra Messing, from left, Christopher Livingston, and Susannah Flood appear during a performance of Roundabout Theatre Company's "Birthday Candles," a play by Noah Haidle. (Joan Marcus/Polk PR. via AP)
            
              Christopher Livingston, left, and Debra Messing appear during a performance of Roundabout Theatre Company's "Birthday Candles," a play by Noah Haidle. (Joan Marcus/Polk PR. via AP)
            
              Playwright Noah Haidle appears on the balcony of the American Airlines Theatre in New York on April 8, 2022. Haidle's Broadway debut "Birthday Candles" visits and revisits one woman and her loved ones on her various birthdays as she ages from a rebellious 17-year-old to a 107-year-old great-grandmother. It stars Emmy Award-winner Debra Messing. (AP Photo/Mark Kennedy)
Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’