Don’t be offended by my frank analysis: Wicked is the best movie musical of 2024. For as long as I can remember, I’ve lived a block away from the Gershwin Theatre. For the past 21 years, that ...

The movie and musical versions of “Wicked” are based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, following the friendship between Elphaba and Glinda. Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as ...

That’s what the show is about: revealing what’s under the surface" Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande) appear in Wicked (2024), directed by Jon M. Chu. Photo: Giles Keyte ...

The “Wicked” film adaptation is split into two parts. The first movie, which hit theaters Nov. 22, follows the events and songs of Act 1 of the musical. “Wicked: Part 2” is expected in ...

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star in Wicked, which was directed by Jon M. Chu, whose hit-studded résumé includes a previous film adaptation of a Broadway musical, the 2021 movie version of ...

The “Wicked” movie is significantly longer than the stage musical. The entire Broadway show is 2 hours and 45 minutes long (including a 15-minute intermission), while the first “Wicked ...

Just over 306,000 theatergoers attended shows during the last full week of December. That's up from the same time in 2023 but far from an outlier, even trailing some recent non-holiday weeks.

Wicked just welcomed a new cast earlier this month, including Broadway's first Black actress to play Elphaba full-time- Lencia Kebede. Watch in this video as she arrives at Shiz for the first time ...