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Playwrights' Theatre

of East Hampton

Founded by Mitzi and Perry Pazer

A series for theater lovers and artists that focuses on the written and spoken word and where the audience can mingle with playwrights, actors, and directors in a casual setting.

The Playwrights' Theatre was founded in East Hampton in 1992 by producer and Springs resident Mitzi Pazer from The Roundabout Theatre Company along with her husband, attorney Perry Pazer. They started the series at LTV where it operated every summer for 10 years before shifting to the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall for another ten seasons. Incredible stars took part: Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Judd Hirsch, Estelle Parsons, Dianne Wiest, Peter Boyle, Jack Klugman, Mercedes Ruehl, Tovah Feldshuh and Charles Durning among countless others. Playwrights' Theatre gave a chance for East Hampton audiences to meet and mingle with these luminaries in a relaxed setting where process and dialogue were encouraged with great talkbacks and informal garden receptions. The emphasis was on the written and spoken word, with playwrights being selected by Mitzi and afforded a remarkable, focused and hospitable workshop in which to hear and shape their developing plays. When Josh Gladstone to joined the team at LTV in early 2023, Gladstone reached out to the Pazers with an invitation, and sure enough the Pazers responded, excited to see their legacy of 30 years reignited and reimagined for a new generation of East Hampton theater lovers and artists. LTV is proud to welcome The Playwrights' Theatre back home to Studio 3 in Wainscott, where the work of the Pazers will continue, offering creative opportunities to theater-makers to develop their voices and imaginations throughout the 

Upcoming Performances 

“Break”
A new play by Lindsay Carpenter
Directed by SB Tennent

7:30PM - Friday 9/18 & Saturday 9/19
2:00 PM - Saturday 9/19 & Sunday 9/20

Two men are trapped in a room, forced to stack an ever-taller tower of dishes on one man's back. A voice threatens to kill them if a wall-mounted ticker hits 50. Above them, in a glass-walled booth, a by-the-book Deputy and her wildly under-qualified new assistant run the increasingly bizarre punishment. But as the dishes pile higher and the ticker climbs, the rules begin to unravel—and so does the question of what these men have done to deserve being there. Darkly funny, suspenseful, and unnervingly intimate, Break is a twist-filled psychological thriller about parenthood, punishment, forgiveness, and broken dishes.

“Dance With Death”

Info coming soon!

“Elephant Man”

Info coming soon!

Past Performances 

R.U.R.

R.U.R.

A STEADY RAIN

A STEADY RAIN

BE MY BABY

BE MY BABY

RHINOCEROS

RHINOCEROS

Shirley Chisholm-Unbossed and Unbowed	Shirley Chisholm - Unbossed and Unbowed

Shirley Chisholm-Unbossed and Unbowed Shirley Chisholm - Unbossed and Unbowed

Oregon

Oregon

Chekhov's Shorts: a Funny Night at the Theater With a Bear & a Proposal

Chekhov's Shorts: a Funny Night at the Theater With a Bear & a Proposal

Scrooge the Relapse

Scrooge the Relapse

Five Times in One Night

Five Times in One Night

Scenes of Mirth and Marriage

Scenes of Mirth and Marriage

All the World's a Stage Theater Workshop for East End Students

All the World's a Stage Theater Workshop for East End Students

All Mankind Has Lost Its Reason

All Mankind Has Lost Its Reason

Zeph and Violet A Race Romance

Zeph and Violet A Race Romance

The Lisping of A Muse

The Lisping of A Muse

The Pillowman

The Pillowman

On the 531

On the 531

The Dreamer

The Dreamer

A Milonga for Gabriel Isaacs

A Milonga for Gabriel Isaacs

Before Vinson

Before Vinson

Stupid F-cking Bird

Stupid F-cking Bird

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