One of the pitfalls of 21st century movie musicals is the hesitation to allow such movies to feel like musicals; theater fans ...

Wicked, the new movie based on the hit Broadway show, is officially a success. Actually, it's a historic success: it's the ...

Marissa Bode is speaking out against ableist comments about her "Wicked" character. The actress, who plays ...

Wicked marks Bode’s film debut. In the movie, she plays Nessarose, the sister of Erivo’s Elphaba and the future Wicked Witch of the East. Like her character, Bode has used a wheelchair since she was ...

It's widely known now that the cinematic adaptation tells the tale of how the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 original ...

Marissa Bode, the first wheelchair user to portray Nessarose in 'Wicked,' has called the reaction online to her character ...

When her younger sister (Marissa Bode) enrolls at the renowned Shiz University ... though strong supporting performances ...

Marissa Bode, the first wheelchair user ever to play 'Wicked's' Nessarose, called jokes about her character's disability 'low ...

Spoilers ahead. If you’re familiar with the Broadway show, you know Nessarose has quite the arc in Act 2. She succeeds her ...

The actress, who plays Elphaba’s younger sister, Nessarose in the live-action adaptation, takes to TikTok to slam the critics ...

Part Two’ moment for Marissa Bode’s character Nessarose will focus on “the magic of the story,” she tells PEOPLE ...

It was in the spring of 2004 that I first saw Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth perform the showstopping “Defying Gravity” from the Broadway blockbuster “Wicked” at the Tony Awards.