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

10 March 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Cold War Choir Practice at Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space

Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space ⋄ February 28-March 29, 2026

By Loren Noveck

There’s something for everyone in Ro Reddick’s new play: singing, dancing, comedy, pathos, and Cold War nostalgia. Loren Noveck reviews.

5 March 2026

Reviews

Review: What We Did Before Our Moth Days at the Greenwich House Theater

February 4-May 10, 2026

By Loren Noveck

An excellent ensemble displays all the unsettling nuance in Wallace Shawn’s latest. Loren Noveck reviews.

28 February 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Silver Manhattan at Bowery Palace

Bowery Palace ⋄ February 18-March 29, 2026

By Loren Noveck

Jesse Malin and a killer band bring Malin’s life story to the stage. Loren Noveck reviews.

24 February 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: You Got Older at the Cherry Lane Theatre

Cherry Lane Theatre ⋄ February 12-April 21, 2026

By Loren Noveck

A revival reunites playwright Clare Barron and director Anne Kauffman for this symphony of awkwardness. Loren Noveck reviews.

18 February 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: without mirrors at The Brick

The Brick Theater ⋄ February 12-28, 2026

By Loren Noveck

The great David Greenspan in a solo work by Jerry Lieblich that harks back to an earlier downtown scene. Loren Noveck reviews.

17 February 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Hate Radio at St. Ann’s Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ February 12-26, 2026

By Loren Noveck

How does theater grapple with genocide? European auteur Milo Rau brings one answer to St. Ann’s Warehouse. Loren Noveck reviews.

10 February 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The First Line of Dante’s Inferno at La MaMa

LaMama E.T.C. ⋄ February 5-22, 2026

By Loren Noveck

Kirk Lynn’s new play riffs on Dante with moody, melancholy results. Loren Noveck reviews.

7 February 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure at the Bushwick Starr

Bushwick Starr ⋄ February 4-21, 2026

By Loren Noveck

An overflowing cornucopia of a puppet musical. Loren Noveck reviews.

1 February 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Watch Me Walk at Playwrights Horizons

January 15 to February 15, 2026

By Loren Noveck

An artist’s life in an increasingly unpredictable body: Loren Noveck reviews Anne Gridley’s new solo piece

28 January 2026

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Disappear at the Minetta Lane Theatre

Minetta Lane Theatre ⋄ January 8-February 22, 2026

By Loren Noveck

A “seriocomedy” that’s neither serious enough nor funny enough. Loren Noveck reviews.