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 February 2025

Reviews

Review: Liberation at the Laura Pels Theatre

Laura Pels Theatre ⋄ January 31-March 30, 2025

By Loren Noveck

An intricately layered memory play that’s more complicated than it seems. Loren Noveck reviews.

23 February 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Safe House at St. Ann’s Warehouse

St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ February 15-March 2, 2025

By Loren Noveck

A solo show missing a sense of its only character. Loren Noveck reviews.

10 February 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: How Is It That We Live, or Shakey Jake + Alice at A.R.T./NY Theatres

ART/New York ⋄ February 3-22, 2025

By Loren Noveck

The new play by the downtown legend Len Jenkin mixes a tender love story with some darker, stranger magic. Loren Noveck reviews.

5 February 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: The Antiquities at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons ⋄ January 11-February 23, 2025

By Loren Noveck

Jordan Harrison’s exciting new play is intellectually impressive and philosophically a bit terrifying. Loren Noveck reviews.

1 February 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: Nina at Theaterlab

Theaterlab ⋄ January 23-February 9, 2025

By Loren Noveck

Forrest Malloy’s backstage (melo)drama is filled with strong performances and incisively directed by Katie Birenboim. Loren Noveck reviews.

27 January 2025

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway

Review: A Knock on the Roof at New York Theatre Workshop

New York Theatre Workshop ⋄ January 10-February 16, 2025

By Loren Noveck

An Under the Radar piece that portrays the banal horror of life under siege. Loren Noveck reviews.

16 January 2025

Reviews • NYC • Performance

Review: Dead as a Dodo at Baruch PAC

Baruch Performing Arts Center ⋄ January 8-February 9, 2025

By Loren Noveck

Miraculous puppets and macabre whimsy. Loren Noveck reviews an Under the Radar show for all ages.

13 January 2025

Reviews • NYC • Opera

Review: Eat the Document at HERE Arts Center

HERE Arts Center ⋄ January 9-17, 2025

By Loren Noveck

Prototype presents a modern opera based on a novel that takes its name from a documentary: Loren Noveck finds it intriguingly complex.

18 December 2024

Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance

Reviews: True Love Forever at Art X

Art X ⋄ November 21, 2024-February 15, 2024

By Loren Noveck

A date-night experience that’s part concert, part dance piece, part collective catharsis. Loren Noveck reviews.

12 December 2024

Reviews • Broadway • NYC

Review: Cult of Love at Helen Hayes Theater

Helen Hayes Theater ⋄ November 20, 2024-February 2, 2025

By Loren Noveck

A trip through a minefield of family dysfunction. Loren Noveck reviews.