CMU School of Drama


Friday, March 21, 2025

“Birthday Candles” at City Theatre

The Pittsburgh Tatler: Playwright Noah Haidle has noted that one inspiration for his play Birthday Candles was Thornton Wilder’s one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner, which speeds through nine decades of Christmas dinners, along with several generations of a wealthy family’s life in their ancestral home, in about thirty minutes of stage time.

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