Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company is no stranger to Broadway. Over the years, the Chicago-based theater has sent 18 shows to New York, beginning with John Malkovich’s production of Harold Pinter’s “The Caretaker” in 1986 and continuing through the likes of Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County,” which transferred to the Music Box Theatre in 2008 and played 649 performances, having reintroduced the Steppenwolf brand to a new generation of New York theatergoers.

Still, three transfers within the space of a calendar year is going it some.

Steppenwolf’s production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Purpose” won last season’s Tony Award for best play, as well as a Pulitzer Prize, and the Broadway production, lead-produced by David Stone, has since routinely grossed more than $700,000 per week, a

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