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The Outsiders North American Tour has recouped its capitalization of $11,000,000 after 29 weeks on the road. Learn more about the tour and how to get tickets to an upcoming stop here!

The Composers Showcase of Las Vegas marks a major milestone this spring, celebrating 20 years of live original music with a special anniversary gala at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. The event takes place inside Reynolds Hall on April 29.

Watching Tony's every year, I always look forward to the performances and seeing what each show decides to showcase. In 2024, I was captivated by the performance of 'The Outsiders' and looked forward to seeing it live. What was that moment? I'll share more on that later, but after seeing the show in New York last spring, I am thrilled that Des Moines audiences will have the opportunity to see 'The Outsiders' through Sunday as part of the Willis Broadway Series at Des Moines Performing Arts.

BroadwayWorld has a first look at the North American Tour of The Outsiders. Check out all-new video of the touring cast in action.

Platonic Romance Dance, a new one-act play written and directed by B. Michael Peterson, is being presented in New York at Chain Theatre, performed by Jay Lucas Chacon and Taylor Brandon, with sound design by Aaron Gutterman.

The year, 1967, the place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and its central narrative came from the scrawlings of a 16-year-old named Susan Eloise Hinton, and the rest as we know it is solidified into literary history. History so much, that it has sparked a re-birth with a new generation and with the new stage adaptation of Hinton’s subliminal novel, a pandemonium and cultural phenomenon was created.

One of the most effective things the musical gains by moving from page to screen to stage is permission to reframe the story without betraying it. By leaning harder into the Curtis brothers as the emotional spine, the musical clarifies a distinction that’s always been present in the text but rarely foregrounded this explicitly: Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy are family by blood, bound by obligation and grief; while the Greasers are family by choice, bound by loyalty and survival.

Broadway In Chicago has revealed that single tickets for the Tony Award winning Best Musical, THE OUTSIDERS, based on the seminal novel by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola's landmark motion picture will go on sale.

THE OUTSIDERS North American tour is coming to The Fabulous Fox. The Outsiders is the winner of four 2024 Tony Awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical.

The North American Tour of The Outsiders is now underway. The tour launched at Shea's Buffalo Theatre in September. Read the reviews for the tour so far here!

Get an exclusive first look at national tour of the Tony-winning Best Musical, The Outsiders, in these production photos — the Tony-winning musical launched in Buffalo and will officially open October 8 in Tulsa.

The North American tour of The Outsiders will tech and launch at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre in Buffalo, NY, before its official opening in Tulsa, OK, on Wednesday, October 8 at Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

Go inside the first curtain call for the National Tour of The Outsiders at Shea's Theatre in Buffalo. The tour is teching and having its first performances in Buffalo before officially opening October 8th in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Rehearsals are officially underway for the North American tour of The Outsiders, the Tony Award winning Best Musical. The tour will tech and launch at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre in Buffalo, NY, before its official opening in Tulsa, OK. Watch in this video as the cast tells us more about the tour ahead!

The Outsiders is launching from Shea's Buffalo Theatre, marking the official start to the first national tour. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!

Rehearsals are officially underway for the North American tour of The Outsiders, the Tony Award winning Best Musical. The cast just met the press and we have photos here!

Casting and cities has been announces for the North American tour of The Outsiders, the Tony Award® winning Best Musical. The tour will tech and launch at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre in Buffalo, NY, before its official opening in Tulsa, OK, on Wednesday, October 8 at Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

Black Ensemble Theater is presenting That's What Friends Are For: Gladys, Dionne and Patti, a musical celebration of sisterhood, soul, and legendary voices written and directed by Producing Managing Director Daryl D. Brooks. See photos here!

Bucks County Playhouse has released new production photos of its high-energy production of the musical “Leader of the Pack: The Ellie Greenwich Musical.” The  show celebrates the life and legacy of pop music icon Ellie Greenwich. See photos here!

Bucks County Playhouse brings a new production of the high-energy musical “Leader of the Pack: The Ellie Greenwich Musical” to its stage this summer, celebrating the life and legacy of pop music icon Ellie Greenwich. “