Sometimes lesbian space aliens are just what the doctor ordered. Loren Noveck reviews.
Performance
31 March 2025
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: The Trojans at the Cell
The Cell Theatre ⋄ March 19-April 19, 2025
By Lorin Wertheimer
Loren Noveck and Lorin Wertheimer have very different opinions about this new synth-pop musical that grapples with the Greeks.
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.
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.
8 October 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: The Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny’s Bar at the Waterfront Museum
Waterfront Museum ⋄ September 28-October 27, 2024
By Loren Noveck
A new site-specific play about Sunny’s Bar takes us on a journey through time, and reminds us of home. Loren Noveck reviews.
13 July 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Bill’s 44th at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ July 10-28
By Loren Noveck
This emotionally expansive puppet piece is both joyful and heartbreaking. Loren Noveck finds it a pleasure to celebrate with Bill.
8 May 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Small Acts of Daring Invention at HERE
HERE Arts Center ⋄ May 1-June 1, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck finds this unsettling puppet piece visually stunning but emotionally ephemeral.
28 February 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Existentialism at La Mama
La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theater ⋄ February 23-March 10, 2024
By Loren Noveck
Talking Band, La Mama, and Anne Bogart remind us of Off-Off-Broadway’s roots in this small gem of a performance piece. Loren Noveck reviews.
12 January 2024
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: Open Mic Night at Under the Radar
Performance Space New York ⋄ January 5-18, 2023
By Loren Noveck
An imaginary elegy for a lost theater scene. Loren Noveck reviews.
28 October 2023
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway • Performance
Review: How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons at St. Ann’s Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse ⋄ October 21-November 5, 2023
By Loren Noveck
This dance theater piece at St. Ann’s never really gets to the subject its title implies, for good or for ill. Loren Noveck reviews.