The Outsiders

The Outsiders at Music Hall Kansas City

When your world sorts people by the side of town they're from, friendship becomes survival. The Outsiders brings the Greaser brotherhood to Music Hall Kansas City, where Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade navigate the sharp divides of 1967 Tulsa with the only family that's ever mattered: each other.

These boys didn't choose their leather jackets or their reputations. What they did choose was loyalty that runs deeper than bloodlines, sticking together when the wealthier Socs cross into their territory looking for a fight. Ponyboy reads books and watches sunsets, dreaming of something beyond the labels that pin him down before he's even had a chance. Johnny just wants to feel safe. Their Greaser family closes ranks around them both, but the clash with the Socs forces questions nobody wants to answer about who gets to imagine a future and who's expected to disappear.

Based on S. E. Hinton's novel and Francis Ford Coppola's film, this 2024 Tony Award–winning Best Musical features a book by Adam Rapp and Justin Levine, with music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival's Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance alongside Levine. It's a story about kids fighting for belonging in a world determined to keep them apart—not by distance, but by dollars and zip codes.

Grab your tickets and see what happens when staying gold means staying alive.