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

31 October 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Merry Me at New York Theatre Workshop

New York Theatre Workshop ⋄ October 11-November 19, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Lesbian sex farce + Tony Kushner’s Angel + the Greeks + Restoration comedy + a woke white man = too many influences for one comedy to handle. Loren Noveck reviews.

29 October 2023

Reviews • Uncategorized

Review: Stereophonic at Playwrights Horizons

October 8-November 26, 2023

By Loren Noveck

A familiar trip to the seventies rock era is lifted by Daniel Aukin’s strong direction. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 October 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons at St. Ann’s Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ October 21-November 5, 2023

By Loren Noveck

This dance theater piece at St. Ann’s never really gets to the subject its title implies, for good or for ill. Loren Noveck reviews.

23 October 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: To the Ends of the Earth 땅끝까지 at JACK

October 13-28, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Nicole Serratore and Loren Noveck jointly review this bilingual play that yearns for a connection that sometimes feels all too elusive.

27 September 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Mary Gets Hers at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space

Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ September 11-October 14, 2023

By Loren Noveck

A medieval retelling that puts women back in the picture, with mixed results. Loren Noveck reviews.

16 September 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: Psychic Self Defense at HERE

HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 12-30, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Normandy Sherwood’s hallucinatory dreamscape isn’t like anything Loren Noveck has ever seen before.

14 September 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Death, Let Me Do My Show at the Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel Theatre ⋄ September 6-30, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Rachel Bloom planned to tour a show in spring 2020. Life, and death, got in the way. Three years later, does her brand of musical comedy still speak to us? Loren Noveck reviews.

8 September 2023

Reviews • Off-Broadway

Review: The Creeps at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke’s

Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's ⋄ September 1-November 5, 2023

By Loren Noveck

A solo show that unsettles, but possibly for the wrong reasons. Loren Noveck reviews.

14 August 2023

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: The Shark Is Broken at the Golden Theatre

July 25-November 19, 2023

By Loren Noveck

There’s a whole lot of meta and not so much shark in this behind-the-scenes comedy on the set of JAWS. Loren Noveck reviews.

9 August 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Let’s Call Her Patty at LCT3

Claire Tow Theater ⋄ July 15-August 27, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Rhea Perlman’s Patty is both too much and too little in a new play by Zarina Shea. Loren Noveck reviews.