The Hood Spelling B is a high-energy, live spelling showdown bringing the community together for a night of fun, competition, and bragging rights. Contestants will battle it out on stage for cash prizes — 1st place $500, 2nd $250, 3rd $150 — hosted by Funnyman Graham.

Join us April 4th from 8:00PM–11:00PM for an unforgettable experience featuring live entertainment, food, drinks, and local vendors. Whether you’re competing or just coming to enjoy the vibe, it’s going to be a night you don’t want to miss.

Think you really got it? Come spell it.

Improv Cincinnati’s Ten Year Anniversary Celebration:
Featuring Bluebird Improv Collective and Orange Tuxedo

Improv Cincinnati celebrates ten years of bold, theatrical improv and sketch comedy with a one-night-only anniversary event. Joining the celebration are internationally touring improv powerhouses Bluebird and the Los Angeles duo Orange Tuxedo for an unforgettable night of once-in-a-lifetime comedy.

About Bluebird
Bluebird is a collection of legendary comedians, who tour the world, performing shows that are fully improvised, once in a lifetime experiences—each and every show.

Made up of some of comedy’s most recognizable faces from TV and movies as well as some that will become your new favorites, Bluebird was formed out of a shared, (still) burning love for improvising and entertaining audiences.

Scheduled to appear: Matt Walsh (Veep, Ghosts, Co-Founder UCB), Joe Canale (Mindy Project, Second City Main Stage), Brad Morris (AP Bio), and Marc Evan Jackson (The Good Place, Brooklyn 99). But, there are always a few other people that contribute to the show just as much as the performers. The audience!

Each and every show is completely unscripted and totally unique. The reason for that? Bluebird uses a short conversation with a couple of audience members at the top of the show to inspire the spontaneous, unhinged and beautifully hilarious comedy mayhem that ensues.
The shows are a uniquely satisfying live comedy entertainment experience and because each audience is different—so is each show. If you don’t believe us, see two!

About Orange Tuxedo
Orange Tuxedo (Los Angeles, CA) is the acclaimed two-person improv team of Craig Cackowski and Carla Cackowski, a husband-and-wife duo known for their show “Close Quarters,” which builds grounded, character-driven relationships from a single shared location. Craig is a Second City Mainstage veteran who has appeared in Community, Veep, Drunk History, and The Sex Lives of College Girls, while Carla toured internationally with The Second City and is a writer, director, and podcast creator. Together, Orange Tuxedo has performed and taught at major improv festivals across the United States and Europe, bringing sharp characters, emotional depth, and effortless chemistry to every fully improvised performance.

Celebrated comedian and new Cincinnatian Kevin James Thornton (Apple TV, Netflix is a Joke) kicks off his Queen City residency with a brand-new series at intimate Memorial Hall. Kevin hosts an evening with a surprise national headliner along with top local and regional talent.

For April 10, the cat’s already out of the bag… Kevin is thrilled to welcome Beth Stelling (Netlflix, Rick and Morty, Red Oaks).

Kevin James Thornton has built a loyal following with his hilarious, heartfelt and occasionally cringey moments of self reflection about growing up gay in a religious community in the 90s. He has nearly 3 million followers across social media with combined views of over a billion. His first special “Be Yourself” was released by Comedy Dynamics and can be seen on Amazon Prime and Apple TV. Thornton signed to Stimola Literary for his first autobiographical book “Big Baby” due for a June 2026 release with Hachette Publishing. His 2020-25 tours saw sold out shows around the world where a recent review of his show at The Stand in Newcastle UK said, “Warm, witty and disarmingly self-deprecating… There is a tender centre to Thornton that makes his comedy sing; a delicate, relatable touch that left the crowd buoyed up and thirsty for more.” (Narc Magazine, UK)

Beth Stelling is a comedian, writer and actress based in Los Angeles. Her latest release “The Landlord Special” on YouTube comes highly recommended by Vulture, The New York Times and Billboard. Beth’s most recent hourlong special “If You Didn’t Want Me Then” topped every Best of 2023 list when it premiered on Netflix along with her beloved 2017 half-hour special in the first season of “The Standups.” Her critically-acclaimed 2015 Comedy Central Half Hour “Boner Appétit to You” now lives on YouTube.

Conan O’Brien produced Beth’s very first hour special for HBO Max called “Girl Daddy” which The New York Times named “The Best Debut Special of the year,” adding, “It’s a virtuosic performance, conversational while dense with jokes.”

Beth has been a writer for the following television series: Rick and Morty, Strange Planet, The Last O.G., I Love You America with Sarah Silverman, Another Period and Crashing on HBO. She’s a sought-after punch-up writer for feature films following her success as an on-set writer for the Universal hit, Good Boys.

As an actress Beth has guest starred on Amazon’s Red Oaks, Corporate on Comedy Central, and she played Ms. Fish on Peacock’s comedy Rutherford Falls. She has a podcast called “Sweethearts” that she inconsistently records with her best pal Mo Welch. You can still listen to her first podcast that she hosted with her mom, Diane, “We Called Your Mom.”