Sidekick Theatre
11411 Masonic Home DriveThe ingredients for the cake are simple: eggs, butter, sugar, salt. Look closer, though, and you’ll see the essence of life itself. Every year, Ernestine bakes a cake and celebrates with her family on her birthday — a delicious ritual that unfolds onstage across 90 years of birthdays. We meet Ernestine and the people who sweeten her life every year on this day as she grows from 17 to 107 years old. Through glimpses of Ernestine’s life as the years go by, Birthday Candles tenderly explores motherhood, family, love, loss and finding your place in the universe.
This charming new play, recently on Broadway, will warm the soul.
Apr 15 - May 17, 2026
Sidekick Theatre
11411 Masonic Home Drive
Sidekick Theatre is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit professional theater based at the Minnesota Masonic Heritage Center in Bloomington that produces shows for adults and children. Under the artistic leadership of Tim Stolz and Brian Pierce, Sidekick Theatre is committed to developing and presenting original and reimagined plays and musicals that foster the exchange of ideas, inspire laughter, promote new perspectives and awaken possibility in audiences of all ages.
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