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 ...

It’s the surest sign of spring when everything starts to turn green again. At the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts currently, that even includes the actors. “Wicked,” the most ...

Obviously, Dorothy has to enter the Wicked story eventually—the movies are based on the Broadway musical, which is based on the book, which riffs off The Wizard of Oz and its own source-material ...

2. The Witches of Oz. How it happened in the book: Baum's book describes four witches of Oz, two good and two bad. Dorothy's house is carried by a tornado to the land of Oz and lands on the Wicked ...

But the idea of making the witch the central threat to Dorothy remained. "As in 'Snow White,' the witch is a menace throughout the entire film," Maxine said. Hissing the witch. Today, Margaret ...