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

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.

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.