The Outsiders Brings Four Tony Awards and One Week of Broadway to Fayetteville

If you only know The Outsiders from the S.E. Hinton novel, the Broadway version is a different animal. It swept four Tonys in 2024, including Best Musical, and Fayetteville gets it for six nights this fall.

THE DEETS

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The story is the one you know: Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and their crew of Greasers in Tulsa, 1967, caught between class tension and the kind of loyalty that gets people hurt.

Director Danya Taymor, who won her own Tony for this production, went physical with it. The New York Times called her direction “refreshing, gritty, and endlessly effective.” Time Out New York said it’s “more pulse-pounding than anything else on Broadway.”

What to Expect

This is a high-energy show. The choreography is aggressive, the pacing is fast, and the emotional weight sneaks up on you. Baum Walker Hall is a proper full-scale venue, so the staging gets room to breathe.

Tickets top out at $131.10 depending on section.

Tickets top out at $131.10 depending on section.

Get Your Tickets

The Outsiders is part of Walton Arts Center’s Broadway Series, which runs touring productions through Fayetteville all season. Grab seats at the Walton Arts Center box office or visit the full event page.