Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.". Baum's witch wasn't green, for ...

The Wicked Witch of the West also appears in Oz the Great and Powerful as Theodora, a kindhearted young witch who falls in love with Oscar, and is eventually turned evil by her sister.

The Wicked Witch of the West: A Heroine for Our Time “Wicked,” which arrives to the big screen this fall, redeems the villain who is barely a character in L. Frank Baum’s classic novel.

Despite all of the vibrant colors and singing, there’s a dark undertone in the new Wicked: For Good trailer that speaks to how the first movie ended. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) has become known as the ...

It's not surprising the Wicked Witch of the West has garnered such popularity (or perhaps infamy) over the years. The character is so impactful in Fleming's Wizard of Oz movie from 1939, and a big ...

More than 50 years after Hamilton wore toxic copper-based face paint to appear green in The Wizard of Oz, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ...

The "Wicked" musical is based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 book "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," which takes place before the events of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The ...

Maguire’s “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” came out in 1995. Maguire, known for his fairytale reimaginings, eventually wrote an entire series based on Elphaba and ...

It wasn’t always easy being green for Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. And Hamilton — who died at age 82 in 1985 — went through a ...

Cynthia Erivo transformed into Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, in “Wicked” thanks to the film’s makeup artist and hairstylist Frances Hannon. Hannon told The Post her work on Erivo ...

“Wicked” and “Wicked: For Good” are both adaptations of Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” which explores the backstory of the ...