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

6 November 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: My Broken Language at Signature at the Pershing Square Signature Center

Signature Theatre ⋄ October 18-November 27

By Loren Noveck

Quiara Alegría Hudes’s adaptation of her memoir is more of an unusually creative literary reading than a play. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 October 2022

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Topdog/Underdog at the Golden Theatre

Golden Theatre ⋄ October 20, 2022-January 15, 2023

By Loren Noveck

Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize winner returns to Broadway, as powerful and as devastating as ever. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 October 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Peerless at 59E59

59E59 Theaters ⋄ September 24-November 6

By Loren Noveck

A pair of twins think they know what their future holds. Jiehae Park’s biting tragicomedy shows how wrong they are. Loren Noveck reviews.

23 September 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Marie It’s Time at HERE

HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 7-October 1, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Julia Jarcho and Jennifer Seastone are magnetic as two sides of the same character in Jarcho’s latest play. Loren Noveck reviews.

20 September 2022

Reviews • Off-Broadway

Review: Four Saints in Three Acts at The Doxsee at Target Margin Theater

The Doxsee ⋄ September 15-October 9, 2022

By Loren Noveck

A Gertrude Stein opera libretto transformed into a bravura one-man show by the great David Greenspan. Loren Noveck reviews.

26 June 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Bodies They Ritual at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks

The Wild Project ⋄ June 22-July 2, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Angela Hanks creates ten rich, nuanced roles for women in the third installment of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks. Loren Noveck reviews.

12 June 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Spindle Shuttle Needle at Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks

June 6-16, 2022

By Loren Noveck

A fable about war and capitalism that finds wit, heart, and sexiness in unexpected places. Loren Noveck reviews.

8 June 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Snow in Midsummer at Classic Stage Company

Classic Stage Company ⋄ May 20-July 9

By Loren Noveck

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s adaptation of a 13th-century Chinese drama has power and ideas to spare, but the whole is sometimes less than the sum of its parts. Loren Noveck reviews.

8 June 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Quince at the Bushwick Starr

Bushwick Starr ⋄ June 2-19, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Sweet but not sappy, tart but not sour: this tale of a quinceañera is visually striking and has a lot of heart. Loren Noveck reviews.

26 May 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Fat Ham at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ May 12-July 3, 2022

By Loren Noveck

The quintessence of Hamlet, brilliantly and hilariously distilled into a young Black queer Southern man singing karaoke to Radiohead’s “Creep” at a backyard wedding barbecue. Loren Noveck reviews James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize winner at the Public Theater.