On her 33rd birthday, this woman was ready to make a wish. As she leaned in to blow out the candles on her birthday cake, her hair brushed too close to one of the flickering flames, and within seconds ...

A Vietnamese woman's birthday celebration turned disastrous as the hydrogen-filled balloons she was holding exploded upon touching the candle of her birthday cake, burning her face. In a now-viral ...

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 ...

In the opening minutes of Noah Haidle’s play “Birthday Candles,” it’s a little confusing seeing mature actors with gray hair playing goofy high school seniors. But that’s part of the charm of the ...