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

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.

3 April 2023

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ at the Music Box Theatre

Music Box Theatre ⋄ March 2, 2023-open-ended

By Loren Noveck

The dancing delivers, and that’s really all that matters. Loren Noveck reviews.

19 March 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Good John Proctor at the Connelly Theater

Connelly Theater ⋄ March 11-April 1, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Talene Monahon imagines the real lives behind the Salem Witch Trials, to chilling effect. Loren Noveck reviews.

9 March 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Dark Disabled Stories at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ February 28-April 2, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Ryan J. Haddad’s new work is at once an eye-opening look into disability and a radical experiment in accessibility. Loren Noveck reviews.

2 March 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Fall River Fishing at the Connelly Theater

Connelly Theater ⋄ February 18-March 9, 2023

By Loren Noveck

What begins as a stylishly absurd comedic treatment of Lizzie Borden goes to a much stranger place, with mixed but enjoyable results. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 February 2023

Reviews

Review: Letters from Max, a ritual at Signature Theatre

February 7 through March 19, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Sarah Ruhl’s new play stands as a collective ritual of grief, for our “moment suffused with illness.” Loren Noveck reviews.

27 February 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window at BAM

BAM Harvey Theatre ⋄ February 4-March 24

By Loren Noveck

This Lorraine Hansberry revival substitutes bitter truths for bohemian illusions. Loren Noveck reviews.

14 January 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner at Under the Radar

Public Theater ⋄ January 10-January 22, 2023

By Loren Noveck

How do you act out a Tweetstorm? Jasmine Lee-Jones’s Under the Radar show wants to show you. Loren Noveck reviews.

6 January 2023

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Are we not drawn onward to new erA at BAM Fisher

BAM Fisher ⋄ January 4-8, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Ontroerend Goed’s piece in Under the Radar plays a beautiful trick. Loren Noveck reviews.