Elphaba's sister Nessarose in Wicked is destined to become The Wicked Witch of the East in the Wizard of Oz universe. Here's ...

To do that, she’d have to kill the green witch. Did Glinda know this would happen? I don’t doubt it. The Wizard and all of Oz always wanted to get rid of the Wicked Witch, and she knew that.

Wicked Witch of the West certainly makes us all look at our childhood classic fave The Wizard of Oz (1939) a little differently. Still, we love the journey that Dorothy goes on with the Tin Man ...

We call it “history.” So says the Wizard in the musical “Wicked,” based on Gregory Maguire’s novel about the witches of Oz. Maguire created Elphaba’s name from the initials of L.

Early on, “Wicked” costume designer Paul Tazewell decided that the beauty of Oz needed ... For Glinda, this took the form of the bubble shape and the color pink associated with Billie Burke’s Good ...

As one might say in Oz, “Wicked” is thrillifying in its melodiousness even if overlongical and ponderrific. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo, left) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) are school rivals who ...

Based on the Broadway musical, it serves as a backstory to the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, casting that film’s villain, the Wicked Witch of the West, in a positive light, as a misunderstood and ...