"We were all children once," says Jasmine Amy Rogers, who plays the sensitive and preternaturally talented preteen Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. "It's a huge part of our lives." Spelling Bee, now playing off-Broadway at New World Stages, takes pains to theatricalize the charged period before adolescence, a quality that imbues the show with humor and heart. "Danny Mefford, our directo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PM on December 30, 2025