Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck is a writer, editor, dramaturg, and recovering Off-Off-Broadway producer, who was for many years the literary manager of Six Figures Theatre Company. She has written for The Brooklyn Rail, The Brooklyn Paper nytheatre.com, and NYTheater now, and currently writes occasionally for HowlRound and WIT Online. In her non-theatrical life, she works in book publishing.

Articles by Loren Noveck

23 November 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Babe at Pershing Square Signature Center

Pershing Square Signature Center ⋄ October 29-December 22

By Loren Noveck

A generational clash that doesn’t fully come to life. Loren Noveck reviews.

16 November 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Burnout Paradise at St. Ann’s Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ November 12-December 1

By Loren Noveck

This Edinburgh Fringe hit enacts the impossibility of everyday life–on literal treadmills. Loren Noveck reviews.

14 November 2024

Features

Feature: A Conversation with the Curators of UNDOXX at JACK

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck interviews zavé martohardjono, Maya Simone Z., and Jamie Chan, the curators of UNDOXX.

10 November 2024

Reviews

Review: Give Me Carmelita Tropicana at Soho Rep

Soho Rep ⋄ October 24-December 15, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Soho Rep bids Walkerspace farewell with a maximalist fantasia by Alina Troyano and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 October 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ October 10-November 17

By Loren Noveck

Sarah Mantell’s play finds a flicker of hope in the face of climate catastrophe. Loren Noveck reviews.

27 October 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Hothouse at Irish Arts Center

Irish Arts Center ⋄ October 23-November 17, 2024

By Loren Noveck

A madcap cabaret about the end of the world and generational trauma also makes space for a glimmer of hope. Loren Noveck reviews.

20 October 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: A Woman Among Women at the Bushwick Starr

Bushwick Starr ⋄ October 15-November 3, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Julia May Jonas responds to the male-centric American canon in intriguing if sometimes puzzling ways. Loren Noveck reviews.

15 October 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Good Bones at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ September 19-October 27, 2024

By Loren Noveck

A play of big ideas that never quite finds its footing. Loren Noveck reviews.

8 October 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: The Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny’s Bar at the Waterfront Museum

Waterfront Museum ⋄ September 28-October 27, 2024

By Loren Noveck

A new site-specific play about Sunny’s Bar takes us on a journey through time, and reminds us of home. Loren Noveck reviews.

4 October 2024

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: McNeal at Lincoln Center Theater

Vivian Beaumont Theatre ⋄ September 5-November 24, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Ayad Akhtar’s latest has nothing to tell us about technology or art–or the human soul. Loren Noveck reviews.