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Home » Martha Lavey

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Posted inArts & Culture

Ensemble is the first gossip-free oral history of Chicago theater

by Jack Helbig August 8, 2019August 18, 2021

Mark Larson explains how he created his 700-page behemoth.

Posted inBlogs

In The Accidental Curator, Steppenwolf ensemble member Molly Regan reckons with the dead

by Dan Jakes January 10, 2018August 18, 2021

The solo show, in a limited run at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre, tells a family’s story going back 130 years.

Posted inBlogs

Former Steppenwolf artistic director Martha Lavey dies

by Deanna Isaacs April 25, 2017August 18, 2021

Lavey died from complications from a stroke, the theater announced.

Posted inArts & Culture

Theater Wit’s 10 Out of 12 isn’t about keeping us on the edge of our seats

by Tony Adler March 22, 2017August 18, 2021

Anne Washburn’s behind-the-scenes play re-creates the drudgery of a tech rehearsal.

Posted inArts & Culture

At Profiles Theatre the drama—and abuse—is real

by Aimee Levitt and Christopher Piatt June 8, 2016August 18, 2021

For more than 20 years, actors and crew members stayed silent about mistreatment they suffered at the acclaimed storefront theater. Now they’re speaking up, hoping to protect workers in non-Equity theaters across the country.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago theater was true to our times in 2015

by Tony Adler December 23, 2015August 18, 2021

Theater Wit’s Bad Jews and the Goodman’s Stop. Reset. are among our senior theater critic’s favorites of the year.

Posted inBlogs

‘I was following what the artists were doing’—An interview with Martha Lavey (part two)

by Tony Adler October 27, 2014August 18, 2021

A conversation about “institution” with Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Martha Lavey, who will be leaving her job in 2015, after 20 years.

Posted inBlogs

A talk with outgoing Steppenwolf artistic director Martha Lavey (part one)

by Tony Adler October 24, 2014August 18, 2021

An interview with Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Martha Lavey, who will step down from her post in 2015.

Posted inBlogs

Big changes are afoot at Steppenwolf

by Aimee Levitt October 2, 2014August 18, 2021

Theater announces new artistic and directors, and also expansion plans.

Kate Arrington and Keith Kupferer
Posted inArts & Culture

Approach Steppenwolf’s The Qualms without reservations

by Tony Adler July 16, 2014August 18, 2021

The Qualms, Bruce Norris’s satire about swingers, inspires no reservations in one Chicago critic.

Caroline Neff and Zoe Perry
Posted inArts & Culture

Laugh along with Job in The Way West

by Tony Adler April 16, 2014August 18, 2021

In The Way West, Steppenwolf satirizes (and sings about) manifest destiny and the American dream.

Left to right: Stephanie Shum, Will Cavedo, Caitlin Chuckta, Evan Linder, and Sarah Gitenstein in Rewilding Genius
Posted inArts & Culture

At Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep, failure can spell success

by Justin Hayford March 12, 2014August 18, 2021

The three productions featured at this year’s Garage Rep do what they’re supposed to: risk failure by thinking big.

A page from Chris Ware's multimedia project, Building Stories
Posted inArts & Culture

Our five best bets for fall books

by Chicago Reader September 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Our five best bets for fall books: Ray Bradbury, Chris Ware, Fran Lebowitz, and more

Posted inBlogs

Why didn’t Bruce Norris play the game?

by Tony Adler February 3, 2012August 19, 2021

Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park

Posted inBlogs

Casting Call for Theater Scholars

by Deanna Isaacs August 16, 2010August 19, 2021

Call for papers on Chicago theater

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