CONCORD THEATRICALS ACQUIRES EXCLUSIVE WORLDWIDE LICENSING RIGHTS FOR “THE OUTSIDERS”
Contact for Concord Theatricals:
Rick Miramontez / Morgan Zysman
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Contact for The Outsiders:
Adrian Bryan-Brown / Heath Schwartz / Jordan Goins
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212 575 3030
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025
CONCORD THEATRICALS
ACQUIRES EXCLUSIVE WORLDWIDE LICENSING RIGHTS FOR
“THE OUTSIDERS”
New York, NY (December 4, 2025) – Concord Theatricals is thrilled to announce that it has secured exclusive worldwide secondary stage licensing rights to Adam Rapp, Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay & Zach Chance) and Justin Levine’s Tony Award-winning musical The Outsiders. For more information, visit concordsho.ws/TheOutsiders.
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The Outsiders, based on the novel by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola’s Motion Picture, features a book by Adam Rapp with Justin Levine, music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay & Zach Chance) and Justin Levine, with music supervision, orchestration and arrangements by Justin Levine.
“The Outsiders novel held particular importance for each member of our creative team growing up, as we all discovered it when we were around Ponyboy’s age,” said Levine. “We worked tirelessly to honor Susie Hinton’s raw and emotional world with this adaptation and cannot wait to share it with the world.”
“In the development of the musical, our team worked in close collaboration, and I’m thrilled to welcome Concord Theatricals, my longtime publisher, to our partnership,” said Rapp. “The story explores self-discovery and chosen family in such an intense and profound way, and we look forward to new audiences resonating with the work the way we have.”
“We’re proud to have The Outsiders find a home with Concord Theatricals. It means a lot to us to be partnering with a company that truly understands and values the heart of this story,” said Clay and Chance. “From the start, we did our best to stay true to the world Susie Hinton created—full of soul, struggle, and hope—and we’re excited to see it continue to live on through new voices and new productions.”
“Generations of kids and adults have loved and related deeply to the classic novel and film, and now the hit Broadway musical,” said Sean Patrick Flahaven, Chief Theatricals Executive of Concord, “We’re honored to work with these creators and producers to bring their acclaimed, tuneful, and kinetic show to audiences worldwide.”
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of “outsiders” battle with their affluent rivals, the Socs. This thrilling new Broadway musical navigates the complexities of self-discovery as the Greasers dream about who they want to become in a world that may never accept them. With a dynamic original score, The Outsiders is a story of friendship, family, belonging… and the realization that there is still “lots of good in the world.”
The Outsiders is currently playing on Broadway at New York City’s Bernard B.Jacobs Theatre and across North America on tour.
Winner of four 2024 Tony Awards including Best Musical, The Outsiders opened on Broadway on April 11, 2024 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre under the direction of Danya Taymor with choreography by Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman. The musical is produced by The Araca Group, American Zoetrope, Olympus Theatricals, Sue Gilad & Larry Rogowsky, and Angelina Jolie. The world premiere of The Outsiders was produced by La Jolla Playhouse, Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director and Debby Buchholz, Managing Director, in 2023.
BIOGRAPHIES
Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, Samuel French, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, plus over 100 new signings each year. Our unparalleled roster includes the work of Irving Berlin, Agatha Christie, George & Ira Gershwin, James Graham, Katori Hall, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorraine Hansberry, Kander & Ebb, Kitt & Yorkey, Marlow & Moss, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Arthur Miller, Dominique Morisseau, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, August Wilson and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions. We are the only firm providing truly comprehensive services to the creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording and first-class producing. As a producer and record label, the company has won three Tony Awards and two GRAMMY Awards in the past six years. www.concordtheatricals.com
Adam Rapp earned a Tony Award nomination for his work on The Outsiders. He is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (New York Theatre Workshop), Finer Noble Gases (26th Humana Festival), The Metal Children (The Vineyard), and Red Light Winter (Barrow Street Theatre), for which he won Chicago’s Jeff Award for Best New Work, an OBIE, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. The Sound Inside received its world premiere at the 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival and was named one of The New York Times Best Plays of 2018. It premiered on Broadway at Studio 54 in the fall of 2019 and went on to be nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play. His playwriting honors include Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, The Helen Merrill Prize, the 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, the Benjamin H. Danks Award, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award, and a 2021 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His latest novel Wolf at the Table was released last year.
Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay & Zach Chance) earned Tony and GRAMMY® Award nominations for their work on The Outsiders. Jamestown Revival is an internationally recognized Americana/Roots Rock band from Austin, TX. The band has performed at iconic music festivals, such as Farm Aid, Coachella, Stagecoach, Lollapalooza, Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic, Outlaw Music Festival (featuring Willie Nelson), and Austin City Limits, have been featured in publications ranging from Rolling Stone to the Wall Street Journal, and toured with the likes of The Avett Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Nathaniel Rateliff, Ryan Bingham, and Willie Nelson. Jamestown Revival has released four critically acclaimed albums (Utah, The Education Of A Wandering Man, San Isabel, and Young Man) and two equally praised EPs (A Field Guide To Loneliness and Fireside With Louis L’Amour, featuring songs inspired by stories from author Louis L’Amour). www.jamestownrevival.com
Justin Levine earned Tony and GRAMMY® Award nominations for his work on The Outsiders. His recent projects include: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (music supervisor, arranger, orchestrator; Tony Award), Shakespeare in the Park’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (original music; Delacorte Theater; Drama Desk nomination), VEVO X LORDE: Melodrama (vocal arranger/supervisor, conceived by Lorde, Electric Lady Studios), Contemporary Color (music supervisor, conceived by David Byrne, Barclay’s Center and Air Canada Center), Bonfire Night (book, music and lyrics, NAMT), The Weight of Smoke (original music with Matt Stine, choreographed by Doug Elkins for Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, Lincoln Center), Pepper and Sam (co-conceived with Salty Brine, Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (music director, co-orchestrator, cast, Public Theater and Broadway), Here Lies Love (music director, Public Theater, National Theatre, Seattle Rep, MassMoca, Broadway), Love’s Labour’s Lost (music director, co-orchestrator, cast, Delacorte), Robber Bridegroom (music director, co-orchestrator with Martin Lowe, Roundabout Theater), Murder Ballad (music director, orchestrator, Manhattan Theatre Club and Union Square Theater).
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