Elphie” the fifth book in the Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire, explores the earlier moments in Elphaba's life that led ...

Elphaba is green in Wicked because her biological parents drink a “green elixir” while pregnant with her. In fact, they state ...

Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz, traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic ...

A subtle but sinister detail used in Wicked's Defying Gravity scene hints at who was truly responsible for Elphaba's ...

Frank Baum’s “Oz” stories from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West. “When I turned it over and read the little précis on the back, it blew my mind,” Holzman said.

Wicked took audiences somewhere over the rainbow with plenty of nods to its source material, The Wizard of Oz — but did you ...

The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. While Maguire’s novel has been wildly popular and influential — it was the inspiration for Wicked the Broadway musical, which the Academy Aw ...

aka the Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo), who attends the fantastical Shiz University with the future witch Galinda (Ariana Grande). The cast includes Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible ...

Erivo took the world by storm for her performance as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in director Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked.” Erivo is also an Emmy, Grammy and Tony-award winner ...

We will have to wait until November to see how much power she can exert in exile as the Wicked Witch of the West. Likewise, Ani seems to be caught in an endless exchange of sex for money—so much ...

Chu, adapting the first act of the renowned Broadway musical. The story explores the origins of Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her complex relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch.

Which theme park is witch? That’s one burning question that “Wicked” fans have as speculation grows that the film, spawned from a Broadway musical, might be turned into a real-life attraction.