The Outsiders

Based on S. E. Hinton’s 1967 novel and its 1983 film, *The Outsiders* arrives in New York as a coming‑of‑age stage musical that keeps its focus on class, loyalty, and the fragile code of belonging. The score leans toward folk‑rock, written by Jamestown Revival’s Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance with Justin Levine, with a book by Adam Rapp and Levine. Now playing on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and the Walter Kerr Theatre, it brings a widely taught American story into the city’s live-theater record. Its most pointed move is refusing nostalgia, letting youthful violence read as social consequence rather than romance.