3 - 29 June 2025, various times

How well do I know my partner? 

​

We often hear about the culprit causing scandals, but how often do we get to learn about the experiences of their life-partners involved in that mess?

​

Now, Ruth Madoff is one of the most controversial criminal spouses due to her husband's enormous $65B fraud.  Many are left to question her involvement or her innocence.

​

RUTHLESS is a fictional play inspired by the life events of the Madoff-Ponzi scheme.  Author Roger Steinmann takes us behind the closed doors of mythical Ruth Madoff, who is still alive at 84.

​

Ruth Madoff is suffering.  Her husband of 50 years, Bernard L. Madoff, has confessed to her that all their wealth and fame were based on a decades-long Ponzi-swindle of a record-breaking $65 billion!

​

Ruth's glamorous New York jet-set life implodes overnight. 

​

After Bernie went to jail for life, after their first son committed suicide, and after the second one died of accelerated cancer, Ruth is now left all by herself.  And stripped of any wealth and glamour...!

​

Not tired of real-life drama with a touch of Blanche DuBois ('A Streetcar Named Desire') and Norma Desmond ('Sunset Blvd)? 

​

Very well, since in RUTHLESS, details of Ruth Madoff's life are dramatized in such a way that everybody may identify with the central question:

​

How well do I know my partner? 

Or my family?? 

Or my best friend...???