Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West inspired the hit stage musical and its two-part movie adaptation, in which Erivo stars as Elphaba.

There is good reason for this. The film sees Erivo’s Wicked Witch of the West studying at university in the land of Oz alongside Grande's good witch Glinda. Together they travel to the Emerald ...

Was the Wicked Witch of the West born wicked or did she have wickedness thrust upon her? Maybe what appears as wickedness began in the witch’s childhood. That’s what Massachusetts Author ...

before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. From her struggles with familiar jealousy, her thirst for knowledge and her encounters with the marginalized talking animals of Oz ...

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 ...

The movie is split into two parts, with the second part, "Wicked: For Good," scheduled for release in November 2025. The season of the witch is here to stay! "Wicked" is finally on streaming as of ...

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 ...

That’s when he decided to sell the Wicked Witch’s hat he owned from the movie “The Wizard of Oz.” Schneider is a prominent buyer of “Star Trek” props. In 2013 he and his wife made ...

A gallery at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles shows the making of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," including a publicity photo of Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch.