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

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.

25 June 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Grief Hotel at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks

The Wild Project ⋄ June 21-July 1, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks closes with a delicate, funny, and touching exploration of grief and the search for human connection. Loren Noveck reviews.

22 June 2023

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Once Upon a One More Time at the Marquis Theatre

Marquis Theatre ⋄ May 13-open ended

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck is not wooed by the combination of Britney Spears and happy ever after.

10 June 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Deep Blue Sound at Clubbed Thumb Summerworks

The Wild Project ⋄ June 5-June 15

By Loren Noveck

This portrait of a community drifts into the disappointingly vague and episodic. Loren Noveck reviews.

7 June 2023

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Grey House at the Lyceum Theatre

Lyceum Theatre ⋄ April 20, 2023-open ended

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck finds this thriller uncomfortably trapped between all-too-human horrors and the supernatural.

5 June 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Comeuppance at Signature Theatre Center

Signature Theatre ⋄ May 17-June 25

By Loren Noveck

Death is the uninvited guest at a pre-reunion pre-game party in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play, expertly directed by Eric Ting. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 May 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Evelyn Brown (A Diary) at La Mama

La MaMa Downstairs ⋄ May 19-June 4, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck finds this lost María Irene Fornés play a curious artifact.

25 May 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Primary Trust at the Laura Pels Theatre

Laura Pels Theatre ⋄ May 4-July 2, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck feels like hope is hard to come by right now, and Eboni Booth’s new play succeeds in bringing us just a little.

20 May 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: demons. at the Connelly Theater

Connelly Theater ⋄ May 16-June 3, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Keelay Gipson writes and directs a surreal dark comedy about trauma, where the monsters are real. Loren Noveck reviews.