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

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.

24 October 2020

Reviews • Off-Broadway

Review: Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy

online ⋄ October 20-November 15

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck doesn’t quite know whether to laugh or cry at this workplace comedy about Russian social media trolls that’s both terrifyingly realistic and absurdly hilarious.

6 August 2020

Reviews • Off-Broadway

Review: Who’s There? at Ice Factory 2020

August 4-8

By Loren Noveck

A piece of big ideas that feels more about positions than people. Loren Noveck reviews.

25 July 2020

Reviews • Off-Broadway

Review: Beginning Days of True Jubilation at Ice Factory 2020

July 24-26

By Loren Noveck

The first piece in an all-virtual Ice Factory festival uses corporate meeting technology to deconstruct the trajectory of a tech start-up. Loren Noveck reviews.

5 May 2020

Features

Viral Content for Our Viral Moment?

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck muses on capturing a little bit of live theater’s spark in Instagram monologues.

25 February 2020

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: We’re Gonna Die at the Tony Kiser Theater

Tony Kiser Theater ⋄ February 4-March 22

By Loren Noveck

Big, bold directorial choices don’t enhance Young Jean Lee’s intimate musical. Loren Noveck reviews.