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Martha Lavey at the Steppenwolf Theater in 2010, during the run of the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Joel Moorman
Martha Lavey
Died on April 25, 2017 at age 60
An actress as well, Ms. Lavey took over as artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago in 1995 and over the next 20 years made it a showcase for acclaimed productions and an incubator for new plays and young playwrights.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.