One of New York’s great avant-garde theater companies shines in a simple story of three lives. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Articles by Loren Noveck
13 October 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God at Playwrights Horizons
Playwrights Horizons ⋄ October 2-November 9, 2025
By Loren Noveck
Playing almost a dozen characters, Jen Tullock delivers a dizzyingly complex performance in a piece she co-wrote. Loren Noveck reviews.
13 October 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Caroline at MCC
MCC Theater ⋄ September 12-November 16, 2025
By Loren Noveck
Playwright Preston Max Allen, director David Cromer, and three rich performances show us a complex portrait of a family trying to find its way forward. Loren Noveck reviews.
10 October 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Slaughter City at ART/NY
ART/New York ⋄ October 4-18, 2025
By Loren Noveck
Naomi Wallace’s play about labor activism remains timely in its themes, but this muddy production doesn’t showcase them. Loren Noveck reviews.
25 September 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Last Call: A Play with Cocktails (site-specific)
Apartments across the city ⋄ September 19-October 13, 2025
By Loren Noveck
It’s post-apocalyptic, but on the plus side, there are cocktails. Loren Noveck reviews a new site-specific piece by Hansol Jung.
23 September 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Iranian Girlfriend at MITU580
MITU580 ⋄ September 18-October 4, 2025
By Loren Noveck
A work of auto(meta)fiction that offers much to enjoy without entirely coming together. Loren Noveck reviews.
22 September 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Bull at JACK
JACK ⋄ September 19-October 4
By Loren Noveck
A tensely and intensely intimate exercise in cruelty. Loren Noveck reviews.
16 September 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: The Essentialisn’t at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ September 10-28, 2025
By Loren Noveck
Eisa Davis’s new piece is as much ceremony as performance art. Loren Noveck reviews.
15 September 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Matriarchs at TheaterLab
Theaterlab ⋄ September 10-28, 2025
By Loren Noveck
A nuanced ensemble portrait of Orthodox life that feels just a little out of balance. Loren Noveck reviews.
27 August 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Royal Pyrate at the Waterfront Museum
Waterfront Museum ⋄ August 16-31, 2025
By Loren Noveck
A pirate musical that can’t quite find its sea legs. Loren Noveck reviews.









