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

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.

21 May 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Will You Come With Me? at MITU580

MITU580 ⋄ May 11-June 5, 2022

By Loren Noveck

A Turkish playwright homes in on the intersection of love and activism. Loren Noveck reviews.

8 May 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Wedding Band at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ April 28-May 15

By Loren Noveck

Another lost classic by Alice Childress returns to the New York stage with a strong message but a muddy production. Loren Noveck reviews.

6 April 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Suffs at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ March 13-May 15, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Shaina Taub’s new musical tells a nuanced and complex history of the fight for women’s suffrage. Loren Noveck reviews.