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

20 January 2017

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Tempest at St. Ann's Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ 13th January - 19th February 2017

By Loren Noveck

Loren Novek reviews the transfer of Phyllida Lloyd’s The Tempest to St Ann’s Warehouse.

25 October 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: A Life at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 24th October - 27th November 2016

By Loren Noveck

Adam Bock sets us up, to better upend expectations. Loren Noveck reviews.

22 September 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Hit the Body Alarm at The Performing Garage

The Performing Garage ⋄ 20th September - 2nd October 2016

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck discovers “a darkly luminous meditation on freedom, captivity, mortality, and memory.”

12 September 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Wolves at the Duke on 42nd St.

The Duke on 42nd St ⋄

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck suits up to review Sarah DeLappe’s “planet of teenage girls” in NYC.

7 May 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Orpheus Descending at St. John's Lutheran Church

St. John's Lutheran Church ⋄ 23rd April - 14th May 2016

By Loren Noveck

“Feverish and claustrophobic”: Loren Noveck reviews the staging of a lesser-known Tennessee Williams play.

8 April 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Antlia Pneumatica at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 11th March - 24th April 2016

By Loren Noveck

Loren Noveck reviews Anne Washburn’s “unsettling and magically strange” new play in New York.

29 March 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Seagull and Other Birds at Abrons Arts Center

Abrons Arts Center ⋄ 23rd March - 2nd April 2016

By Loren Noveck

“It’s imperfect, of course, but its imperfections…are part of the whole.” Loren Noveck reviews Pan Pan Theatre Company’s take on Chekhov.

15 March 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Familiar at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ 12th February - 10th April 2016

By Loren Noveck

The cracks start to show through the polished facade of Danai Gurira’s perfect family.

2 March 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Wildness, Sky-Pony's Rock Fairy Tale at Ars Nova

Ars Nova ⋄ 16th February -19th March 2016

By Loren Noveck

Loren Novek reviews Sky-Pony’s kitsch but charming rock fairy tale.

25 February 2016

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: City of Glass at the New Ohio Theater

19th February - 12th March 2016

By Loren Noveck

Edward Einhorn’s adaptation “never takes shape as either the story of an investigation or a noirish look into the darker, more opaque sides of human nature.”