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

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.

18 May 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Fears at the Pershing Square Signature Center

Pershing Square Signature Center ⋄ April 25-July 9, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Emma Sheanshang’s new play feels like it was created by an algorithm; there’s nothing at its core. Loren Noveck reviews.

4 May 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: shadow/land at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ April 20-May 28, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s Katrina Cycle kicks off with a gorgeous production at the Public. Loren Noveck reviews.

1 May 2023

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: The Thanksgiving Play at the Helen Hayes Theater

Helen Hayes Theater ⋄ March 25-June 11, 2023

By Loren Noveck

A culturally sensitive Thanksgiving Play for “post-post-racial America” goes horrifyingly awry in Larissa FastHorse’s comedy. Loren Noveck reviews.

18 April 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Plays for the Plague Year at Joe’s Pub

Joe's Pub ⋄ April 5-April 30, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Suzan-Lori Parks’s collage of short plays and songs drops us into the griefs of 2020 in hopes of giving us the tools to process what we’re still living through. Loren Noveck reviews.

13 April 2023

Features

What Does Climate Change Have to Do with the Future of Directing? Notes from the International Directors Summit

By Loren Noveck

Directors from all over the world met virtually for six months, seeking a more accessible, resilient, and inclusive theater industry.

12 April 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Regretfully, So the Birds Are at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ March 22-April 30

By Loren Noveck

A farcical tragedy that lets you laugh at arson, incest, manslaughter, and ecological catastrophe, while also making you feel just a little bit bad for Pol Pot. Loren Noveck reviews.

7 April 2023

Reviews

Review: The Wife of Willesden at BAM Harvey

April 1-April 16, 2023

By Loren Noveck

A raucous retelling of Chaucer that isn’t quite at home in Brooklyn. Loren Noveck reviews.