Excellent performances sometimes take characters deeper than Chisa Hutchinson’s script. Loren Noveck reviews.
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Articles by Loren Noveck
9 March 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Dakar 2000 at City Center Stage 1
New York City Center - Stage I ⋄ February 4-March 23, 2025
By Loren Noveck
This tight espionage two-hander suffers by comparison to the actual state of the world. Loren Noveck reviews.
28 February 2025
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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.









