A Turkish playwright homes in on the intersection of love and activism. Loren Noveck reviews.
Loren Noveck
Articles by Loren Noveck
8 May 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Wedding Band at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ April 28-May 15
By Loren Noveck
Another lost classic by Alice Childress returns to the New York stage with a strong message but a muddy production. Loren Noveck reviews.
6 April 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Suffs at the Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ March 13-May 15, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Shaina Taub’s new musical tells a nuanced and complex history of the fight for women’s suffrage. Loren Noveck reviews.
19 March 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Book of Mountains and Seas at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ March 15-20, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Basil Twist’s simple, haunting puppets embody ancient Chinese myths. Loren Noveck reviews.
17 March 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: what you are now at Ensemble Studio Theatre
Ensemble Studio Theatre ⋄ March 10-April 3, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Exposition bogs down a play about the neuroscience of memory and the persistence of trauma. Loren Noveck reviews.
26 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Wolf Play at Soho Rep
Soho Rep ⋄ February 4 through March 20, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Hansol Jung’s new play at Soho Rep asks what it means to make a family, and how we live when that goes wrong. Loren Noveck reviews.
13 February 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Four Quartets at BAM
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House ⋄ February 10-12, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Pam Tanowitz + T.S. Eliot + Kathleen Chalfant + Brice Marden = a cornucopia of dance theater. Loren Noveck reviews.
11 January 2022
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at The Shed
December 21, 2021 to February 6, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Is it soup? Or is it art? And how good is the soup, anyway? Loren Noveck reviews.
13 December 2021
Reviews • Broadway • NYC
Review: Flying Over Sunset at Lincoln Center Theater
Vivian Beaumont Theatre ⋄ November 11, 2021-February 6, 2022
By Loren Noveck
Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, and Clare Boothe Luce walk into a bar…except the bar is a Malibu estate and they’re all on acid. Loren Noveck finds the hook irresistible, but the execution less interesting.
6 December 2021
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Selling Kabul at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ November 17-December 23, 2021
By Loren Noveck
Sylvia Khoury’s new play explores the anguishing human costs of the United States’s “Forever War” in Afghanistan. Loren Noveck reviews.