Green tears were flowing when Lencia Kebede made history this week on Broadway, becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of “Wicked.” ...

Lencia Kebede appears as Elphaba in the Broadway musical "Wicked" in New York on March 1, 2025. Credit: AP/Joan Marcus “Everyone deserves a chance to fly,” says Kebede. “I'm projecting this ...

Lencia Kebede appears as Elphaba in the Broadway musical "Wicked" in New York on March 1, 2025. In the audience were some 60 family and friends - mom and her aunts and uncles, her many cousins ...

becoming the first Black actor to assume the role of Elphaba full time in the Broadway company of “Wicked.” “It’s hard to even pinpoint a single emotion because I feel that it changes like ...

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.