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

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.

9 December 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Manahatta at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ November 15-December 23, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Mary Kathryn Nagle’s new play gets bogged down in its expository details. Loren Noveck reviews.

30 November 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Spain at 2nd Stage

November 8-December 17, 2023

By Loren Noveck

A dizzying investigation of the line between truth and fiction, art and propaganda, Jen Silverman’s latest leaves Loren Noveck with much to ponder.

16 November 2023

Reviews

Review: United States v. Gupta at JACK

JACK ⋄ November 10-28, 2023

By Loren Noveck

This “musical tragedy” takes us on a satirical, metatheatrical journey through the justice system. Loren Noveck reviews.

14 November 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Waiting for Godot at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

November 4-December 3, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Paul Sparks’s Vladimir brings seeds of hope to Beckett’s bleak classic. Loren Noveck reviews.

8 November 2023

Reviews

Review: FOOD at BAM Fisher

BAM Fisher ⋄ November 2-18, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Geoff Sobelle’s latest performance piece makes us consider the nature of appetite. Loren Noveck reviews.