The idea of the new book comes from parts of the 1995 original that had to be removed for length before it was published. The ...

Almost 30 years after the publication of "Wicked," novelist Gregory Maguire offers readers Elphaba’s origin story in a new ...

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

Elphaba is green in Wicked because her biological parents drink a “green elixir” while pregnant with her. In fact, they state ...

Following the success of the Wicked film, the original 1995 book has received a graphic novel adaptation that re-imagines ...

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 "Wicked" film adaptation is here. Here's who will join Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba and Ariana Grande's Glinda in the film ...

Elphie, a new prequel novel exploring the childhood of Wicked's Elphaba Thropp, is now on shelves. In an interview with the ...

with a new look at Elphaba Thropp, the beloved green heroine, before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. From her struggles with familiar jealousy, her thirst for knowledge and her ...

The musical follows them from their girlhood friendship and explains how Elphaba became the Wicked Witch and Glinda became the Good Witch," the guide explains. The musical adaptation premiered on ...

is Maguire's eighth book in the "Wicked" universe, and this one tells the story of the titular green witch's youngest years. Many scenes of Elphaba's childhood were among the cuts in Maguire’s ...