TIME spoke to Schwartz about key songs in Wicked, from Elphaba’s first big number to the dramatic cliff-hanger, from their origins to how they translate onscreen. But that bare-bones approach made ...

Less than 24 hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences unveiled its shortlists in 12 categories, including ...

Stephen Schwartz is still hard at work on the music for Wicked: For Good. About five months before the highly anticipated second Wicked film is set to hit theaters on November 21, 2025, the musical's ...

Schwartz has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he adapted and directed), Rags and the opera Séance on a Wet Afternoon. For films, he ...

Schwartz is currently Oscar-shortlisted for collaborating with John Powell on the instrumental score for “Wicked.” But he’s already gone down in history for song-based achievements, which involve ...

For Good, composers Stephen Schwartz and John Powell open up about the music in the film and how the new material was ...

Before moving on to the future, anyway, much of our conversation focused on just how much the songs of “Wicked” — the historical song score, but especially the two new ones he wrote for Cynthia Erivo ...

For Good' composer is up for outstanding original score and best original song, while Richter is in the running for his score ...

The show, to be performed in person from May 14 through May 17 and livestreamed on May 17, will feature songs from “ Wicked,” “Godspell” and “Pippin,” plus a song written by Schwartz for Callaway.

Ludwig Göransson and Stephen Schwartz lead the nominees for the 2026 Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards this year, the ...

Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba and Ariana Grande is Glinda in <i>Wicked</i> Credit - Universal Pictures TIME spoke to Schwartz about key songs in Wicked, from Elphaba’s first big number to the dramatic ...