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.
Upcoming Performances
(more 2024 peformances coming soon!)
All the World's a Stage: Theater Workshop for East End Students
Sat 11/30/24 @ 7:00 pm
Starring Mercedes Ruehl and Harris Yulin and Directed by Sag Harbor's own James Larocca, SCENES OF MIRTH AND MARRIAGE reunites these illustrious friends in a program of theatrical readings ranging from the silly to the sublime ...
All the World's a Stage: Theater Workshop for East End Students
Wed 12/04/23 – Sat 12/07/24 @ 7:30 PM
In this comedic quintet, five couples explore the delights and disappointments of their sex lives. Whether they are the first two people on Earth or the last two, modern partners, with exes on the eve of a life-altering event ...
All the World's a Stage: Theater Workshop for East End Students
Sat 12/14/24 @ 7:30 pm
But did it stick? In an homage to Charles Dickens and his classic holiday ghost story, co-creators John McCaffrey and Jack Gwaltney conjure up a comic drama imagining Scrooge backsliding into miserdom. Jacob Marley, in a panic …
Past Performances
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 Michael Clark invited the producer Josh Gladstone to join 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 year.