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Playwright Adam Rapp on Building a World of Adolescent Extremes for The Outsiders by Kathy Henderson

The Outsiders was published in 1967, the year before Adam Rapp was born, but he vividly remembers devouring S.E. Hinton's now-classic YA novel in his dorm room at military school. The tale of the orphaned Curtis brothers and their "Greaser" friends, narrated by 14-year-old Ponyboy, struck a nerve with Rapp, the eldest child of a working-class single mother. Almost four decades after he first encountered the novel, th…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PM on April 10, 2024

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