Gavin Richardson

There’s a little parlor game a few Hub City Theatre Company veterans like to play, me included. We get together and debate which HCTC show should be acclaimed as the Best Thing Hub City Has Ever Done (BTHCHED). Now, if I started listing some of the frontrunners here, all I would do is make people mad. And besides, I’m here to write a review. But let me just say… Everybody that I’ve spoken to who has seen THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE in rehearsal has come away telling me the sa.....

[This (p)review includes a mild structural spoiler in the sixth paragraph.] “In fair Verona, where we lay our scene … A pair of...