The daughter of neglectful parents— her father a missionary in Quadling Country and a depressed, attention-seeking mother—Elphaba, or Elphie, is not easy to love because of her green skin and ...

before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. From her struggles with familiar jealousy, her thirst for knowledge and her encounters with the marginalized talking animals of Oz ...

I was in the audience that got the first look at Google's AI-augmented Wizard of Oz, and I am still rattled by the experience ...

In traditional fairy tales, the witch was an evil, scary creature, but subsequent readings have exonerated her. In real life, women branded as witches were brutally murdered, often burnt at the stake.

Was the Wicked Witch of the West born wicked or did she have wickedness thrust upon her? Maybe what appears as wickedness began in the witch’s childhood. That’s what Massachusetts Author ...

Kennedy tells Richard Fitzpatrick about touchstones that include The Wire, Armistead Maupin, and Arthur Miller ...