For Melody Betts, who plays Evillene and Aunt Em in the Broadway ... it first opened on Broadway April 17, 1975, The Wiz, in all its “Black-is-beautiful” glory, has returned.

Tickets for the Dallas, Texas engagement of THE WIZ will go on sale Friday, March 28 for 16 performances from September 9-21 ...

In their quest to find the wizard, they also face Evillene, the equally evil sister of Evermean, the wicked witch whom Dorothy inadvertently killed when she arrived in Oz; Evillene might be their ...

She commands the stage with both. Even more impressive is Kyla Jade in the dual role of Aunt Em and Evillene (“The Wiz” version of the Wicked Witch of the West). These are very different ...

Frank Baum’s children’s book, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, THE WIZ takes one of the world’s most enduring (and enduringly white) American fantasies and transforms it into an all-Black ...