The Wiz

Arts, Briefly<br> No Bad News: Ashanti to Star in 'The Wiz'<br> Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

<em>Candide</em> Replaces <em>The Wiz</em> on Berkshire Theatre Festival Schedule

HEART-FELT 'WIZ' By LARRY GETLEN<br> AS DOROTHY, ASHANTI

VIDEO FEATURES : On the Scene: The Wiz with Ashanti, LaChanze & More

Rent's Gwen Stewart Will Be Evilene in Centerstage's The Wiz; Casting Announced

<I>The Wiz</I> to Get New Broadway Revival in 2004; MacAnuff to Direct

PHOTO CALL: <em>The Wiz</em>'s Ashanti Meets the Press

Back to Oz: <I>The Wiz</I> Eases on Down the Road Anew at La Jolla Playhouse, Sept. 26

Domingo Succeeds Jones in Encores! <cite>Wiz</cite> Starting June 29

The Wonder of <em>The Wiz</em>

Encores! artistic director Jack Viertel discusses the groundbreaking nature of The Wiz, which continues to July 5 at City Center.

Broadway-Bound Revival of <I>The Wiz</I> Looking at 2005; Book to Be Updated

ArtsBeat Blog<br> Ashanti Gets Her Brand New Day in 'The Wiz' By ERIK PIEPENBURG

A Q & A with the singer Ashanti, who plays Dorothy in the Encores! revival of "The Wiz."

Tony Champ Ted Ross of The Wiz Dead at 68

About Last Night. . . .The Wonderful <em>Wiz</em> of Oz

A World Premiere, <em>Broadway By the Year, The Wiz</em> and More Will Play Berkshire Fest in 2009

<I>Wiz</I>'s Bridgewater Infuses Weill Classics With Jazz for 'This is New,' on CD Aug. 6

PHOTO OP: Opening Night of The Wiz at La Jolla!

Theater at Trinity Presents Songs from <em>The Wiz</em> and "The Wizard of Oz" April 20

VIDEO FEATURES : In Rehearsal: <em>The Wiz</em> at Encores!

<I>The Wiz</I> Revival and Aaron Sorkin's New <I>Invention</I> Joins La Jolla Season

David Alan Grier is <I>The Wiz</I> in New La Jolla Playhouse Staging, Opening Oct. 8

David Alan Grier is <I>The Wiz</I> in New La Jolla Playhouse Staging, Opening Oct. 11

The Wiz to Ease on Down to La Jolla Playouse in the Fall

Holder's an all-round 'Wiz' by HOWARD KISSEL

If you know Geoffrey Holder from TV commercials, he's "the un-Cola man."
If you know him from the theater, he's the man who broke new ground in 1974 as director-choreographer of "The Wiz," the first Broadway musical that found an African-American audience.

Des' journey to 'The Wiz' a spectacle in progress By Anne Marie Welsh

The charming L. Frank Baum story feels wrong for the high-gloss hippified treatment, more buried than animated by the effects.