Wicked

Japan's Shiki Theatre Company has released a promotional video for its Tokyo production of the hit musical Wicked. The long-running Japanese staging of the Broadway show remains one of the company's flagship productions, and the new footage is drawing strong attention from musical theatre fans in Japan and abroad.

The maker duo Wicked Masons, known online as Wicked Makers, have built a FNAF-style animatronic and installed it in a real haunted house, sharing the full build process with viewers. The project blends horror gaming aesthetics with practical robotics, and has drawn large attention from fans of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise and animatronic building alike.

A new World War Two thriller, 'Eyes Turned Skywards', is drawing attention for its fast-paced story set mainly in northern Scotland. The novel uses real locations from the region, reimagined eight decades ago, and features the fictional Sarclet Castle south of Wick at several points in the plot. Readers are discussing its central question: how many deaths it takes to end a war.

The Wicked Makers team has built a Five Nights at Freddy's-style animatronic and installed it in an actual haunted house attraction. The project blends horror game aesthetics with practical robotics, and viewers have responded enthusiastically, with hundreds of thousands of people engaging with the build. Fans of the game franchise and haunted attraction operators are discussing how well the lifelike animatronic works in a real scare setting.

A wave of public devotion to Saint Michael the Archangel is being reported across Italy's ancient mountain peaks, with Catholics reciting the traditional prayer invoking his protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. Observers describe the gatherings as a striking display of spiritual warfare and renewed religious fervour in the historic shrine region.

Gregory Maguire, author of the novel 'Wicked', says a single line in 'The Wizard of Oz' inspired the backstory of Elphaba and Glinda, the two witches whose rivalry anchors his book and the hit film adaptation. The remark offers fans a glimpse into how a small detail from the 1939 classic grew into a full reimagining of Oz from the witches' point of view.

The play "Bootycandy" is drawing attention with its bold, comic exploration of Black queer identity, staged through a riotous coming-of-age story. A theatre review describes it as a wild ride through race, sexuality and family, marked by sharp satire and unflinching honesty about growing up gay in a Black American context.

Photography and plant enthusiasts are sharing images of Plectranthus scutellarioides 'Wicked Witch', an ornamental coleus cultivar prized for its dark, dramatic foliage. The posts appear under the trending LeafScrolling tag, where users swap close-up nature shots. The cultivar's near-black leaves with contrasting edges are drawing attention from gardeners and houseplant collectors.