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 ...

Don't let the crowd of one-word titles fool you: Those looking for their next book will have quite the potpourri to pick from this week. The new releases range from a debut novel to a new ...

Don't let the crowd of one-word titles fool you: Those looking for their next book will have quite the potpourri to pick from this week. The new releases range from a debut novel to a new installment ...

Elphie marks his fourth follow-up to that 1995 origin story, and the first prequel to explore the earliest years of Dorothy's biggest bully — aka Elphaba, as she's known in Maguire's revisionist ...

TODAY Elphaba is getting her own origin story! Here are the details Posted: March 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 25, 2025 Author Gregory Maguire wrote the book “Wicked” as a prequel to “The ...

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 ...

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 ...