Most of us are familiar with the green-skinned witch trope, partly due to the infamous Wicked Witch of the West from Wicked and The Wizard of Oz. The witch is depicted as a green-skinned crone who ...

Life after death, for the villainess at least, began in 1995 with children’s author Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire’s novel is a revisionist take ...

Glinda celebrates the Wicked Witch of the West's demise, questioning if she was truly evil. Elphaba embraces being seen as a troublemaker due to societal prejudices. The Wizard manipulates public ...

However, the good news being celebrated is actually the death of the Wicked Witch of the West, with the citizens of Munchkinland triumphantly singing about how now she has perished, and the land ...

The Good Witch ... the Wicked Witch of the West.” The question I have is: would taking off the slippers really make Dorothy unprotected or somehow drive Elphaba away? After all, the green ...

With Ariana Grande’s Glinda and Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba taking over theaters with the Tony-winning musical, you’ve most likely seen pink and green ... and Wicked Witch of the West ...

The film builds upon the thematic significance of the green coloring of Elphaba’s skin as an intrinsic part of the culturally iconic character. For the same reason, Erivo’s transformation into her ...

“Wicked” tells the origin story of Elphaba, the green outcast who becomes the ... including how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West and how Glinda transforms into the Good Witch.