From Wicked's best relationships to Elphaba's compelling character arc, everything would change if she had been raised by the ...

Many questions will be answered when Wicked's sequel releases this year, but fans still wonder why Elphaba's skin is green.

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

Many scenes of Elphaba's childhood were among the cuts in Maguire’s “hefty brick of manuscript pages” when the book was first published in 1995, he tells USA TODAY. This prequel fills in ...

In Act II of Wicked, Elphaba and Glinda get into an altercation, and in “What Is This Feeling," when they fight each other ...

When Elphaba sings “The Wizard And I” after racing through the fields and a rainbow shows up in the distance, I think it’s a reminder that she’s the protagonist of her own story here, and ...

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 ...

From her struggles with familiar jealousy, her thirst for knowledge and her encounters with the marginalized talking animals of Oz, “Elphie” explores the moments in Elphaba’s life that ...

As Elphaba starts her journey of discovery the novel’s pace is slow and steady. But as she begins to understand herself and the joy and wonders of Oz, the novel’s becomes a tad more lively.