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

28 October 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?) at the Public Theater

Public Theater ⋄ October 14-November 16, 2025

By Loren Noveck

A story of survival and love, told with both language and movement. Loren Noveck reviews.

25 October 2025

Reviews

Review: Oratorio for Living Things at Pershing Square Signature Center

Pershing Square Signature Center ⋄ September 30-November 16, 2025

By Loren Noveck

An indescribably strange and beautiful musical meditation on time. Loren Noveck reviews.

19 October 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Blue Cowboy at the Bushwick Starr

Bushwick Starr ⋄ October 14-November 1, 2025

By Loren Noveck

A cowboy love story, with David Cale’s melancholy spin. Loren Noveck reviews.

15 October 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: Triplicity at Mabou Mines Theater@122CC

122CC ⋄ Mabou Mines Theater @122CC

By Loren Noveck

One of New York’s great avant-garde theater companies shines in a simple story of three lives. Loren Noveck reviews.

13 October 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ October 2-November 9, 2025

By Loren Noveck

Playing almost a dozen characters, Jen Tullock delivers a dizzyingly complex performance in a piece she co-wrote. Loren Noveck reviews.

13 October 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Caroline at MCC

MCC Theater ⋄ September 12-November 16, 2025

By Loren Noveck

Playwright Preston Max Allen, director David Cromer, and three rich performances show us a complex portrait of a family trying to find its way forward. Loren Noveck reviews.

10 October 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Slaughter City at ART/NY

ART/New York ⋄ October 4-18, 2025

By Loren Noveck

Naomi Wallace’s play about labor activism remains timely in its themes, but this muddy production doesn’t showcase them. Loren Noveck reviews.

25 September 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Last Call: A Play with Cocktails (site-specific)

Apartments across the city ⋄ September 19-October 13, 2025

By Loren Noveck

It’s post-apocalyptic, but on the plus side, there are cocktails. Loren Noveck reviews a new site-specific piece by Hansol Jung.

23 September 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Review: Iranian Girlfriend at MITU580

MITU580 ⋄ September 18-October 4, 2025

By Loren Noveck

A work of auto(meta)fiction that offers much to enjoy without entirely coming together. Loren Noveck reviews.

22 September 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Bull at JACK

JACK ⋄ September 19-October 4

By Loren Noveck

A tensely and intensely intimate exercise in cruelty. Loren Noveck reviews.