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

30 October 2021

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Best Life at JACK

JACK ⋄ October 21 - November 6

By Loren Noveck

Melissa Tien’s play asks, If you could turn back time, even a little bit, would that make it any easier to engineer genuine social change? Loren Noveck reviews.

17 October 2021

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Dana H at the Lyceum Theatre

Lyceum Theatre ⋄ October 1, 2021-January 16, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Lucas Hnath makes harrowing and unsettling use of his mother’s life, channeled through an extraordinary performance by Deirdre O’Connell, in a piece that raises questions about the ethics of documentary theater. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 October 2021

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Is This A Room at the Lyceum Theatre

September 24, 2021-January 16, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Tina Satter’s documentary theater piece transfers to Broadway with its power and its exceptional central performance intact. Loren Noveck reviews.

3 October 2021

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Six at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Brooks Atkinson Theatre ⋄ Booking through March 2022

By Loren Noveck

A glittery “histo-remix” of the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives brings its high-energy woman power back to Broadway post-shutdown. Loren Noveck reviews.

21 September 2021

Reviews • Off-Broadway

Review: Sanctuary City at the Lucille Lortel

Lucille Lortel Theatre ⋄ September 8-October 10, 2021

By Loren Noveck

Two young undocumented immigrants struggle in Martyna Majok’s new play, which leaves Loren Noveck heartsick at the state of the world.

10 June 2021

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: What If If Only at NAATCO (online)

online ⋄ June 7-12, 2021

By Loren Noveck

Caryl Churchill’s latest goes by in a flash and leaves you wishing for more. Loren Noveck reviews.

25 May 2021

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Brother, Brother, at New York Theatre Workshop (online)

online ⋄ April 26-July 25, 2021

By Loren Noveck

Radio play meets lush picture book meets dark fairy tale in Aleshea Harris’s new online work. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 January 2021

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Iran at Under the Radar

online ⋄ January 7-17, 2021

By Loren Noveck

What does it mean to live our lives on the backwards timeline of Instagram? Loren Noveck reviews.

21 December 2020

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Pen/Man/Ship at Moliere in the Park

online ⋄ Streaming through January 4

By Loren Noveck

Christina Anderson’s script and Lucie Tiberghien’s direction combine with brilliant design elements into an extremely well-executed piece of digital theater. Loren Noveck reviews.

30 October 2020

Reviews

Review: Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017

Podcast ⋄ beginning October 16

By Loren Noveck

This “history play about 2017” punctures liberal certainties, but maybe not enough of them. Loren Noveck reviews.