LARAMIE – Two University of Wyoming faculty members will help lead viewers down the Yellow Brick Road and pull back the curtain on author L. Frank Baum’s life during “American Oz,” the latest entry in ...

L. Frank Baum was a sickly boy who was educated mostly at home, where he became a voracious reader. He soon combined this love of literature with an ability to create a lasting classic. He had plenty ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. By 1900, when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, Baum was 44 years ...

The name L. Frank Baum conjures images of a magical land somewhere over the rainbow thanks to that famous film starring Judy Garland. “The Wizard of Oz” was just the first in a series of no fewer than ...

The Old National Road — not the yellow brick road — led the creator of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" to Richmond. His stage play, "The Maid of Arran," folded here on May 9, 1883, and was not the ...

Frank Leslie's Boys and Girls Weekly #795, Jan 14, 1882, features Toto on the back cover, nearly 18 years before L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This story cuts across all sorts of ...

Baum’s novel was adapted into the classic live-action film The Wizard of Oz in 1939. The musical starred Judy Garland (Dorothy), Frank Morgan (Wizard of Oz), Ray Bolger (Scarecrow), Jack Haley (Tin ...

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Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, Baum was ...

I'm Tyler Macready. I am a Movies/TV Feature Writer for Collider. When Disney acquired the film rights to L. Frank Baum’s Oz books in 1954, it took the company 30 years to finally produce a follow-up ...

After a delay because of the COVID-19 crisis, installation begins May 12 of a mural that will complete the monument to “Wizard of Oz” author L. Frank Baum outside an affordable housing complex on the ...

Ease on down the road” — be it Brambleton or St. Paul’s — and enjoy the rowdy fun of “The Wiz” at Chrysler Hall, reviewer Page Laws says.