It’s one of the best-selling Y.A. novels of all time and a star-studded Coppola movie from the ’80s. On its way to Broadway, the show’s cast and creators paid S.E. Hinton a visit.

But the unavoidable cross-clan romance — between the 14-year-old greaser Ponyboy Curtis (Brody Grant) and the soc Cherry Valance (Emma Pittman) — is something of a MacGuffin here.

The enriching story is chiefly about 14-year-old Ponyboy, a member of the Greasers, a working-class Tulsa gang, who buries himself in literature and secretly writes fiction to escape the troubles ...

Greasers stick together! Previews for The Outsiders, the new musical based on the seminal novel by S.E. Hinton & Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark motion picture, are currently underway on Broadway.

PONYBOY CURTIS - 15, A dreamer with a cowboy spirit. Our narrator and a budding writer finding his voice, can be vulnerable when speaking to the audience. The youngest Greaser and youngest brother ...

See The Outsiders' Greasers and Socs Get Dirty and Dangerous on Opening Night. ... The new musical, directed by Danya Taymor, stars Brody Grant as Ponyboy Curtis, Sky Lakota-Lynch as Johnny Cade, ...

NEW YORK — Like Jim Jacobs, who conjured up “Grease” from his 1950s experiences at Chicago’s Taft High School, S.E. Hinton penned “The Outsiders” from watching a rivalry between two ...

The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel, is a staple for young readers. Even if you’ve already delved into Ponyboy’s tumultuous adolescence, you can probably still learn ...

Estevez played Two-Bit, a greaser who often tries to steer Ponyboy away from trouble. Estevez went on to star in Repo Man (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), and St. Elmo’s Fire (1985).