Elphaba has already proven how she was misunderstood in Wicked, but the new prequel novel adds even more context to actions that were taken for evil.

A Green Icon for Women of all Colour On a chilly Saturday evening, all cozied up with a hot bowl of homemade chilli, I finally watched John M. Chu’s Wicked (2024), four months after its theatre ...

Author Gregory Maguire wrote the book “Wicked” as a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz” — and how he’s adding more to the story with a new book called “Elphie” that focuses on Elphaba ...

Gregory Maguire on how he got back into Elphaba's head for new "Wicked" prequel and what it was like watching Cynthia Erivo ...

Elphaba Thropp is best known as the all-singing, all-dancing, not-always-wicked Witch of the West in the musical adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel “Wicked” (1995). Those familiar only ...