Before "Wicked" became a film starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, its author was a struggling writer searching for ...

Stephen Schwartz's songs are not for amateurs. What "Wicked" the movie does best is cast people who can sing them.

Meanwhile, the show's other central concern is striking to take in at this moment. Gregory Maguire's 1995 book is a sprawling ...

The beloved Broadway musical is taken from Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of ...

The stage musical version is also an adaptation, the looser kind, of Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name. In 1995, the ...

Best-selling author Gregory Maguire, whose novel "Wicked" was adapted into the wildly popular Broadway show, was among the ...

“Wicked” opens with the citizens of the Land of Oz celebrating the death of Elphaba the Wicked Witch (Erivo), who was done in ...

The screen version of the Broadway musical has plenty of extra time to wander since it only covers the first act. That’s a mixed blessing.

Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande have chemistry in abundance as the central witches in glorious-looking but overlong Oz epic. And there's more to come.