"But there's also that other later of, 'Who am I underneath it?', if they know that as black women, we walk into spaces and aren't necessarily accepted or welcomed and aren't necessarily the main ...

Cynthia Erivo, legendary actress who always used her platform to speak up about social matters, recently talked about how ...

Cynthia Erivo had green skin as Elphaba in the hit movie but was inspired by her own heritage and feelings of being "othered" ...

Cynthia Erivo channelled her “pride about being a black woman” into her ‘Wicked’ performance. The 38-year-old actress had green skin as Elphaba in the hit movie - but she was inspired by her own ...

Research suggests the synthetic hair used for braiding could be bad for you - but will that stop women using it?

Gregory Maguire's Wickedprequel book, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood, is finally here, and it reveals that Elphaba is much younger than I originally thought. While Wicked chronicles the backstory of ...

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 ...

Author Gregory Maguire wrote the book “Wicked” as a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz” — and how he’s adding more to the story with a new book called “Elphie” that focuses on Elphaba ...