Third-place winner Marie Smith and first-place winner Akshara Thummala during the 2025 Merced County Spelling Bee competition, held at the MCOE Downtown Center on Dec. 9 Merced County Office of ...

R-E-V-I-E-W-S! The recently extended Off-Broadway production of the cult-hit musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, opened on November 17 at New World Stages! The critics stopped by to ...

It's an adjective of French origin meaning awkward, clumsy or inept. As in, "the students were ashamed of their maladroit attempt to spell the word that got them eliminated from the competition." This ...

Kennyi Aouad couldn’t stop laughing. The charming and infectious 13-year-old became a worldwide sensation after he giggled through the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee when given the prompt ...

Spelling bees are an inherently bizzare, American creation. Obscure words, strange practice rituals, intense reactions - it's a bit stark, really to see kids under so much pressure in such a public ...

3 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 5 4 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists Julia Krohn as Rona Lisa Peretti in TUTS Production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ...

The snarky, wonderful The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee began as an improv sketch conceived by Rebecca Feldman, then as a play written by her called C-R-E-S-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, then as a musical ...

"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" kicks off a new season at Theatre Under the Stars in Houston — and it's also a full-circle moment for two of the show's key players. TUTS artistic director ...

Most of us never made our way out of the classroom let alone to the school stage during the annual winnowing of spelling bee competitors. In The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee we get to see ...

Create your own Spelling Bee sentence, with winning entries to appear in this year’s Puzzle Mania! By New York Times Games It’s that time of year again: Puzzle Mania is coming soon, and we wanted to ...