The past year had some exciting releases—Wicked, Squid Game season 3, and Deadpool & Wolverine, to name a few. This year, ...

Long before Wicked reimagined the Witch of the West as a dissident resisting fascism, Oz was a hotbed of political commentary ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan With just weeks from Donald Trump’s inauguration to his second term as president, and with a ...

At the age of 37, Cynthia Erivo has already had a richly varied career, winning a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy and channeling ...

People around the globe have been watching the blockbuster musical film “Wicked” this holiday season. Based on the Broadway ...

Not only do Cynthia Erivo (Elphaba) and Grande (Glinda) have undeniable onscreen — and offscreen — chemistry, but Grande, a ...

Adapted from the stage musical, it tells the origin story of Elphaba, better known as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. Elphaba's wig was braided in the capital by a woman who ...

The film's star-studded cast includes Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, who becomes the Wicked ... itself a backstory to the movie The Wizard of Oz that explores the origins and friendship of two iconic ...

Adapted from Gregory Maguire’s novel about the untold backstory of “The Wizard of Oz”’s villainous Wicked Witch of the West (recast here as Elphaba, a pure-hearted social outcast who makes ...

“This is Oz. This is cinema legacy ... In Wicked’s “The Wizard and I” number, for instance, Elphaba is in constant motion that propels her upwards. She’s ecstatic that she might get ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Ruby slippers once worn by Judy Garland in the “The Wizard of Oz,” are displayed at a news ...