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

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.

18 February 2020

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Anatomy of a Suicide at Atlantic Theater Company

Atlantic Theater Company ⋄ February 1-March 15, 2020

By Loren Noveck

Director Lileana Blain-Cruz finds the delicate beauty in Alice Birch’s intricately woven portrait of despair. Loren Noveck reviews.

12 February 2020

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) at La Mama

La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theater ⋄ February 6-15, 2020

By Loren Noveck

Stories that cry out to be told, in a play that doesn’t always succeed in telling them. Loren Noveck reviews.

14 January 2020

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Opera

Review: Blood Moon at Baruch Performing Arts Center

Baruch Performing Arts Center ⋄ January 9-17

By Loren Noveck

This hauntingly beautiful chamber opera by Garrett Fischer and Ellen McLaughlin gets a stunning production at Prototype. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 January 2020

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Venus in Gemini at the Loading Dock

Loading Dock ⋄ January 10-12

By Loren Noveck

Lady twin astronaut geniuses don’t quite generate a successful launch. Loren Noveck reviews.

16 December 2019

Reviews

Review: Sing Street at New York Theatre Workshop

New York Theatre Workshop ⋄ November 25-January 26

By Loren Noveck

NYTW’s new musical gets the joys of being in a band just right…but is that enough to make a satisfying show? Loren Noveck isn’t quite sure.