Review: In ‘The Outsiders’ on Broadway, what should be Ponyboy’s story has a grown-up chill
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 rival gangs explode at her own Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a decade or so later. A 16-year-old with a keen writer’s eye, Hinton saw the sympathetic, working-class Greasers at one table and the snarky, preppy Socs at another. Her romantic, yearning novel, published in 1967,
