A little older than the rest of the cast was Patrick Swayze as Darry, the older brother to Ponyboy and Sodapop, and the ...

45th St. When I first learned that the musical “The Outsiders,” which opened Thursday ... into an outdoor water well and the hood of a car becoming Ponyboy’s bed. The show wavers briefly ...

(Are we always in the vacant lot? Is this some junkyard passion play? Why is a car now vertical?) And “The Outsiders” sometimes throttles its own exuberance. Taymor (“Heroes of the Fourth ...

how a car roars in memory. Given its subject, point-of-view, author and even its title, “The Outsiders” should not benefit so much from the expertise of insiders. To the extent it succeeds ...

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 ... parents in a car crash.