Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the ...

Wicked's Broadway run recently made history when the first Black full-time Elphaba, Lencia Kebede, made her debut ...

Lencia Kebede has become the first Black woman to take on the role of Elphaba in a full-time capacity in the original stage production.

Instead, she’s forced to go it alone, even as Madame Morrible calls her a “wicked witch” across Oz’s radio waves. Elphaba is villainized simply because she’s attempting to stop powerful people from ...

The Best Actress Oscar nominee tells IndieWire how she used her own past to fuel her emotions as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. We talked on Zoom two days after her soaring performance of ...

Theater tots of that era know there was a marked difference before “Wicked” and after. The show explores the friendship of Ozian witches Glinda and Elphaba long before Dorothy touched ruby red ...