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Ambition Never Looked So Good As In  Ruthless!

Island City Stage’s Ruthless! The Musical fires on all cylinders, literally everything clicking be it the cast, the direction, the design, the music, the choreography, or the costumes. This is theatrical excess in the best, and worst, way: is a perfectly choreographed train wreck, and that’s a compliment.

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Bill Hirschman
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Newcomers Share Carbonell Bounty With Major Companies

The Timekeepers, a harrowing drama mounted on a tiny stage by a company only in its second season, swept six of its six nominations including best play at the 38th Carbonell Awards Monday night. Those wins, along with a best director award for the fledgling Slow Burn Theatre Company’s musical next to normal, was greeted as a sign that young theaters could make inroads in a program dominated by a handful of venerable and well-funded troupes.

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Bill Hirschman
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Showbiz Lampoon Ruthless Is A Bit Long, But Wickedly Funny

Everything about Ruthless! The Musical at Actors Playhouse from dripping furs to the Ethel Merman voices, everything is over the top. Way over the top. Thank goodness. Well, actually, don’t thank goodness. Ruthless is a gleefully uninhibited celebration of greed, venality, ambition and ego. In other words, show business.

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Bill Hirschman
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