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

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.

19 March 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Book of Mountains and Seas at St. Ann’s Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ March 15-20, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Basil Twist’s simple, haunting puppets embody ancient Chinese myths. Loren Noveck reviews.

17 March 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: what you are now at Ensemble Studio Theatre

Ensemble Studio Theatre ⋄ March 10-April 3, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Exposition bogs down a play about the neuroscience of memory and the persistence of trauma. Loren Noveck reviews.

26 February 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Wolf Play at Soho Rep

Soho Rep ⋄ February 4 through March 20, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Hansol Jung’s new play at Soho Rep asks what it means to make a family, and how we live when that goes wrong. Loren Noveck reviews.

13 February 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Four Quartets at BAM

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House ⋄ February 10-12, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Pam Tanowitz + T.S. Eliot + Kathleen Chalfant + Brice Marden = a cornucopia of dance theater. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 January 2022

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at The Shed

December 21, 2021 to February 6, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Is it soup? Or is it art? And how good is the soup, anyway? Loren Noveck reviews.