This prequel fills in gaps in Elphaba’s story for fans who have supported "Wicked" for three decades. “Those two little scenes fell on the cutting room floor, as it were, of my office ...

Cynthia Erivo stars as Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, before she turned evil. Glinda the Good Witch, aka Galinda (played by Ariana Grande), is key to Elphaba’s ...

In his new novel Elphie: A Wicked Childhood, out March 25 from William Morrow, Maguire takes readers back to Elphaba’s early childhood, before she met Glinda at Shiz University. The novel recounts her ...

If you were enchanted by 2024's smash hit movie “Wicked,” you might enjoy reading Elphaba’s backstory. Author Gregory Maguire, whose book inspired the movie and the musical, spoke with The Culture ...

Elphie, a new prequel novel exploring the childhood of Wicked's Elphaba Thropp, is now on shelves. In an interview with the Today Show, filmed at New York's Drama Book Shop, author Gregory Maguire ...

So I knew that if I looked at myself and didn't see the green, I don't think I could have made the connection to Elphaba as much as I did. And something happens when all of that green is on ...