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

21 March 2019

Reviews

Review: White Noise at the Public Theater

March 5-May 5

By Loren Noveck

Suzan-Lori Parks negotiates masculinity, race, and the weight of American history. Loren Noveck reviews.

18 March 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Alice by Heart at MCC Theater

Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ January 30-April 7

By Loren Noveck

Alice’s rabbit hole reimagined as the London Underground during WWII: Does it work? Loren Noveck isn’t so sure.

14 March 2019

Reviews

Review: Hatef**k at WP Theater

WP Theater ⋄ March 3-March 31

By Loren Noveck

Can you really f**k someone into being a different person? Layla’s going to try. Loren Noveck reviews.

6 March 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Cake at Manhattan Theatre Club

Manhattan Theatre Club ⋄ February 12-March 31

By Loren Noveck

A sunny comedy about complicated issues fails to have its cake and eat it too. Loren Noveck reviews.

17 February 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Adam at NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball Center ⋄ February 14-16

By Loren Noveck

A transgender autobiography that affirms identity but doesn’t always satisfy theatrically. Loren Noveck reviews.

30 January 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: God Said This at the Cherry Lane

Cherry Lane Theatre ⋄ January 16-February 15

By Loren Noveck

A lack of trust leads to a lack of emotional impact in God Said This. Loren Noveck reviews.

11 January 2019

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Minor Character at Under the Radar Festival

Public Theater ⋄ January 4-13

By Loren Noveck

Six translations of Uncle Vanya at the same time. Absurdism ensues. Loren Noveck reviews.

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.