Billy Crudup plays a complicated nobody. Loren Noveck isn’t sure how much to believe him.
Loren Noveck

Articles by Loren Noveck
18 November 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: A Billion Nights on Earth at BAM Fisher
BAM Fisher ⋄ 15th - 18th November 2017
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck experiences the limits of unchecked invention.
2 November 2017
Reviews
Review: Uncommon Sense at Sheen Center/Loreto Theater
Sheen Center for Thought & Culture ⋄ 25th October - 26th November 2017
By Loren Noveck
Anushka Paris-Carter and Andy Paris explore their experiences with autism in this Tectonic Theater production. Loren Noveck reviews.
31 October 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Illyria at The Public Theater
Public Theater ⋄ 30th October - 10th December 2017
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck reviews Richard Nelson’s play about Joseph Papp and the politics and egos of theater.
18 October 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Arden/Everywhere: The “As You Like It†Project at Baruch Performing Arts Center
Baruch Performing Arts Center ⋄ 8th- 28th October 2017
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck discovers a previously overlooked reading of As You Like It.
27 September 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: One Night Only (running as long as we can) at WP Theater
McGinn/Cazale (WP Theater) ⋄
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck finds unexpected emotion in Monica Bill Barnes’ newest dance-theater work.
24 September 2017
Reviews • Off-Broadway
KPOP at A.R.T./New York Theatres
ART/New York ⋄ 22nd September - 7th October 2017
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck immerses herself in a full-on simulation of a K-pop “factory†and comes out humming.
5 September 2017
Features
A Doll’s House Revisited, Remade
By Loren Noveck
The door slams. What next? Loren Noveck explores how three New York playwrights are reimagining Ibsen’s feminist classic.
22 June 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: (Not) Water at 3LD Art & Technology Center
3LD Art and Technology Center ⋄ To 30th June 2017
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck reviews a play about its own impossibility to be, in the face of the impossibly huge challenge of climate change.
8 June 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Raw Bacon from Poland at Abrons Arts Center
Abrons Arts Center ⋄ 7th - 17th June 2017
By Loren Noveck
Christina Masciotti examines the hurdles facing the current generation of war veterans. Loren Noveck reviews.
17 April 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Angel & Echoes at 59E59
59E59 Theaters ⋄ 11th April - 7th May 2017
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck reviews Henry Naylor’s pair of one-acts about gender and violence in the Middle East.
22 March 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Terrifying at Abrons Arts Center
Abrons Arts Center ⋄ 19th March - 2nd April 2017
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck reviews Julia Jarcho’s fairytale/horror story inspired by archetypal fears and a little Gogol.
7 March 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: The Outer Space at Joe’s Pub
Joe's Pub ⋄
By Loren Noveck
Appreciating the comforts and annoyances of Planet Earth, with Ethan Lipton. Loren Noveck reviews.
23 February 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Everybody at Pershing Square Signature Center
The Pershing Square Signature Center / The Irene Diamond Stage ⋄ Through 19th March
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck reviews Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ modern spin on a medieval morality play.
19 February 2017
Reviews • NYC • Off-Broadway
Review: Escaped Alone at BAM Harvey Theater
BAM Harvey Theatre ⋄ 15th - 26th February 2017
By Loren Noveck
Loren Noveck finds this Royal Court production of Caryl Churchill “unresolved but oddly satisfying.”