A Wicked Childhood" to stars Idina Menzel and Cynthia Erivo, as well as all other performers to play the role of Elphaba.

The author caught up with PEOPLE about his new book, creating his iconic protagonist and his reaction to the 2024 movie The ...

Gregory Maguire on how he got back into Elphaba's head for new "Wicked" prequel and what it was like watching Cynthia Erivo ...

Almost 30 years after the publication of "Wicked," novelist Gregory Maguire offers readers Elphaba’s origin story in a new ...

The idea of the new book comes from parts of the 1995 original that had to be removed for length before it was published. The ...

Elphie, a new prequel novel exploring the childhood of Wicked's Elphaba Thropp, is now on shelves. In an interview with the ...

Elphie” the fifth book in the Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire, explores the earlier moments in Elphaba's life that led ...

Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz, traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic ...

Gregory Maguire says publishing a “Wicked” prequel on the heels of the wildly successful movie adaptation may seem like “leaping after low hanging fruit,” but it’s a story he’s been ...

But, that is the core of who Elphaba is. Elphaba’s progress from child to an adolescent with better understanding of the world, her wants and needs, guide Gregory Maguire’s novel.