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

13 December 2021

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Flying Over Sunset at Lincoln Center Theater

Vivian Beaumont Theatre ⋄ November 11, 2021-February 6, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, and Clare Boothe Luce walk into a bar…except the bar is a Malibu estate and they’re all on acid. Loren Noveck finds the hook irresistible, but the execution less interesting.

6 December 2021

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Selling Kabul at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ November 17-December 23, 2021

By Loren Noveck

Sylvia Khoury’s new play explores the anguishing human costs of the United States’s “Forever War” in Afghanistan. Loren Noveck reviews.

18 November 2021

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Trouble in Mind at the American Airlines Theatre

American Airlines Theatre ⋄ October 29, 2021 through January 9, 2022

By Loren Noveck

Alice Childress’s long-delayed Broadway debut marries simmering rage and sharp satire, and holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the theater world we still inhabit. Loren Noveck reviews.

18 November 2021

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Cullud Wattah at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ November 2-December 12

By Loren Noveck

Erika Dickerson-Dispenza’s award-winning play won’t let us look away from the tragedy of Flint, Michigan. Loren Noveck reviews.

12 November 2021

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Preparedness at HERE

HERE Arts Center ⋄ November 10-December 10

By Loren Noveck

Hilary Miller and the Bushwick Starr present an incisive, if not groundbreaking, black comedy about workplace violence and robot cats. Loren Noveck reviews.

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.