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

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.

6 February 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Connector at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space

Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ January 12-March 17, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Jason Robert Brown and Jonathan Marc Sherman’s new musical cleverly parses the line between fact and truth. Loren Noveck reviews.

3 February 2024

Reviews • Broadway

Review: Appropriate at the Hayes Theater

Helen Hayes Theater ⋄ November 29, 2023-March 3, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck muses on the different meanings of “appropriate” and economic precariousness in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Broadway debut.

28 January 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Our Class at BAM Fisher

BAM Fisher ⋄ January 12-February 11, 2024

By Loren Noveck

Through the lives of ten Polish primary school classmates, we see the horrors a community can perpetrate upon itself, and the long tail of violence’s aftermath. Loren Noveck reviews.

12 January 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: Open Mic Night at Under the Radar

Performance Space New York ⋄ January 5-18, 2023

By Loren Noveck

An imaginary elegy for a lost theater scene. Loren Noveck reviews.

7 January 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Whole of Time at Torn Page

December 28, 2023-January 27, 2024

By Loren Noveck

An Argentine playwright puts a dark(er) spin on the American canon. Loren Noveck reviews.