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

9 January 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Is This a Room at The Kitchen

The Kitchen ⋄ January 4-13

By Loren Noveck

Ripped from the headlines, Is This a Room uses an interrogation to interrogate the nature of power.

7 January 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein at Under the Radar Festival

Public Theater ⋄ January 3-12

By Loren Noveck

Sheer magic with shadows: Loren Noveck reviews Manual Cinema’s latest genre-bender.

11 December 2018

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine at Signature Theatre

Signature Theatre ⋄ November 19-January 6

By Loren Noveck

The tragicomic, or comitragic, epic journey of a woman who made herself once, and now has to do it all over again. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 December 2018

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Noura at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ November 27-December 30

By Loren Noveck

In Noura, a refugee lives in exile from herself, trying to reconcile her past and her present. Loren Noveck reviews.

20 November 2018

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Hard Problem at Lincoln Center

Mitzi Newhouse Theatre ⋄ October 25-January 6

By Loren Noveck

Tom Stoppard interrogates whether a thermostat has consciousness potential, and why we have consciousness at all. Loren Noveck reviews.

16 November 2018

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Natural Shocks at WP Theater

Women’s Project Theater ⋄ October 28-November 25

By Loren Noveck

A shocking twist can’t save a paper-thin script. Loren Noveck reviews.

15 November 2018

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Wild Goose Dreams at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ October 30-December 16

By Loren Noveck

An ambitious, complex, at times unwieldy play that dramatizes the relationship between humans and the digital sphere as much as the relationships among its characters. Loren Noveck reviews.

16 October 2018

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Fireflies at the Atlantic Theater

Atlantic Theater Company ⋄ September 26-November 11

By Loren Noveck

A nuanced portrait of a troubled marriage against the less-nuanced backdrop of a troubled world. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 October 2018

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Black Light at Greenwich House Theater

Greenwich House ⋄ September 24-December 31

By Loren Noveck

Jomama Jones invites us to imagine our way out of these troubled times. Loren Noveck reviews.

9 October 2018

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: What the Constitution Means to Me at New York Theatre Workshop

New York Theatre Workshop ⋄ September 12-October 28

By Loren Noveck

Heidi Schreck asks whether “equal protection of the laws” is really so equal or protective after all. Loren Noveck reviews.