In 2010, Lavin appeared as Ruth Steiner in a Broadway revival of the play "Collected Stories", reprising her role for a PBS production of the play, and received a fifth Tony nomination for the role. She appeared in the new play by Jon Robin Baitz, "Other Desert Cities", Off-Broadway at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater (Lincoln Center) beginning in previews in December 2010, closing February 27, 2011. Lavin was featured in the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) production of the musical "Follies", from May 2011 to June 2011, as Hattie Walker.