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

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.

14 December 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Straights at JACK

JACK ⋄ December 5-21

By Loren Noveck

A #selfie-filled road trip through a broken America. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 November 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Fefu and Her Friends at Polonsky Shakespeare Center

Polonsky Shakespeare Center ⋄ November 16-December 8

By Loren Noveck

María Irene Fornés’s groundbreaking work of environmental theater still feels radical forty years later. Loren Noveck reviews.

10 November 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America at HERE

HERE Arts Center ⋄ November 1-24

By Loren Noveck

This immersive theater piece tackles the weight of 400 years of black American history with both humor and horror. Loren Noveck reviews.

16 September 2019

Reviews

Review: Wives at Playwrights Horizons

August 23-October 6

By Loren Noveck

Jaclyn Backhaus’s latest is a feminist confection full of cheerily subversive little soap bubbles of delight. Loren Noveck reviews.

27 July 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: Douglas at the Daryl Roth Theatre

Daryl Roth Theatre ⋄ July 23-August 17

By Loren Noveck

What do you do after the show that blows up the very premises of your chosen art form? A show named after your dog, of course. Loren Noveck reviews.

13 July 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: No One Is Forgotten at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater ⋄ July 8-July 27

By Loren Noveck

Winter Miller crafts an investigation into the absurdity of terror. Loren Noveck reviews.

16 June 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Veil Widow Conspiracy at 4th Street Theatre

4th Street Theatre ⋄ June 8-July 6

By Loren Noveck

Gordon Dahlquist’s new play for NAATCO is intriguingly intricate but doesn’t quite live up to its potential. Loren Noveck reviews.