Multiple Grammy-winning musician Ruben Blades talks importance of climate change film 'Black Butterflies' in 'polarized' U.S.

With its emphatic power chords and iconic declaration (“ Well I guess this is growing up ”), “Dammit” is perhaps the ...

Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes the Sun, we have been forever changed by the music of Wicked. Since 2003, the Broadway musical about the "true story" of the Wicked Witch of the West has ...

The final years of the '60s were a last gasp for psychedelia. Revisit three songs from 1967 that marked psychedelic rock's ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, Merle Haggard released what would later become his first single to reach the top of the country ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One of the common criticisms of the Broadway musical “Wicked” is that its best songs are in Act I, leaving Act II to feel like a bit of letdown. By that logic, the same concern ...

A giant of Jamaican music, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish reggae’s themes of struggle, resistance and uplift. By Ben Sisario Much ...

Each witch gets a new number as part of an effort to flesh out the arc of the stage show’s second act. By Esther Zuckerman As the composer Stephen Schwartz was working on the 2003 stage musical ...

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Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande bring the film adaptation of Wicked to a dramatic close in the sequel, Wicked: For Good. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the film adapts the second half of the stage musical, ...

Note: Minor spoilers ahead for "Wicked: For Good." Even the most loyal fans of Broadway's "Wicked" are in for surprises and unfamiliar tunes when they watch Elphaba and Glinda's latest turn on the big ...