Muddling Madoff at the New Rep
Joel Colodner and Jeremiah Kissel in Imagining Madoff. Photo: Andrew Brilliant.A small shock wave rippled through theatrical circles in 2010, when Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel abruptly rebuked Deb Margolin, a feminist playwright based at Yale, who had written Wiesel into her Imagining Madoff, a meditation on the relationship between the notorious Ponzi schemer and his (often Jewish) victims. Wiesel…