"This Madoff is
forcefully rendered by Mr. Kissel as a brash, vulgar
and
possibly insecure man, yet he yields little insight
into why he did what he did.
Fleetingly, he flirts with the idea of telling
Galkin the truth, not to save him but
to crush his “picture of the world as a place
where some men are purely moral.”
He ends up remaining
silent."
......The New York Times
"Playing him—with only hints of the tics for which Madoff was known—Kissel is phenomenal. Throughout, as he melds all the above traits into a frightening, sorrowful winner-loser. As he grabbed the play tenaciously, I wondered, Where has this actor been all my theater-going life? He’s been building an award-winning reputation in Boston, which goes some way toward explaining why New York has been robbed of his imposing presence.
Anyone telling me that Kissel’s performance—directed for all he’s worth by Jerry Heyman—isn’t one of the absolute best on a Manhattan stage right now will have an argument on his or her hands. Because his actor’s concentration is so fixed, it’s hard to stop watching him.".... David Fichter, New York Stage Review"The cast features the superb acting talents of Jeremiah Kissel as Bernard Madoff; Gerry Bamman as Solomon Galkin; and Jenny Allen as A Secretary. Kissel masters the role of Madoff, a self-absorbed, ruthless womanizer"......Broadway World
"Employing his rumbling deep voice, his thinning hair slicked back and veering from snarling cheeriness to reflective introspection, Jeremiah Kissel swaggering in a power suit gleefully gives us the ballsy Madoff we desire. Tossing off expertly pronounced Yiddishisms in his rants, Mr. Kissel fully embodies the archetypal striving lusty Jewish kid from Queens who worked the angles and became a macher. Kissel attacks the role with outsize relish as if it were Roy Cohn in Angels in America."...Theatre Scene
"Both Jeremiah Kissel and Gerry Bamman are outstanding. Were one not up to the other, dramatization would suffer. Kissel is credibly passionate, driven, and suffering without overdoing any aspect despite regular eruptions.".....Woman Around Town