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

11 April 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Macbeth (an undoing) at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ April 5-May 4, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Writer/director Zinnie Harris cracks open the Scottish play to focus on the women within it. Loren Noveck reviews.

29 March 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Dead Outlaw at the Minetta Lane

Minetta Lane Theatre ⋄ February 28-April 14, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Audible Theatre launches into musicals with this weird and wonderful tale. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 March 2024

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: The Who’s Tommy at the Nederlander Theatre

Nederlander Theatre ⋄ March 8, 2024-open-ended

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck can’t find the “why” in this revival.

22 March 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Look of Love at BAM

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House ⋄ March 20-23, 2024

By Loren Noveck

An evening of dance that looks buoyantly toward spring. Loren Noveck reviews.

19 March 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Teeth at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ February 21-April 14, 2024

By Loren Noveck

The new horror comedy musical by Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs is a wild, fast-moving, gleeful ride. Loren Noveck reviews.

19 March 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Corruption at Lincoln Center

Mitzi Newhouse Theatre ⋄ February 15-April 14, 2024

By Loren Noveck

J. T. Rogers’s new play can’t find a human story to tell. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 February 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: Existentialism at La Mama

La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theater ⋄ February 23-March 10, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Talking Band, La Mama, and Anne Bogart remind us of Off-Off-Broadway’s roots in this small gem of a performance piece. Loren Noveck reviews.

27 February 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Ally at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ February 15-March 24

By Loren Noveck

A clash of eloquent viewpoints grapples with the struggle for moral certainty in a world where everyone’s experience reveals uncomfortable truths. Loren Noveck reviews.

25 February 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Hunt at St. Ann’s Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ February 16-March 24, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Visually striking, emotionally ambiguous, this adaptation of a Danish film is both successfully suspenseful and narratively unbalanced. Loren Noveck reviews.

8 February 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy at Vineyard Theatre

Vineyard Theatre ⋄ January 25-March 3, 2024

By Loren Noveck

A piece of digital theater from the depths of the pandemic feels different in three dimensions. Loren Noveck reviews.