\ud83c\udfad NEW! Brooklyn Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n
Ahead of the full production of Don Juan, audiences will have an opportunity to get an early look at the work during a special free pop-up presentation on August 14 (rain date August 15) at Domino Square in Williamsburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Don Juan is one of Moli\u00e8re’s most thrilling and provocative masterpieces. A feverish descent from seduction to reckoning, the play blends comedy, tragedy, and the supernatural, pushing Moli\u00e8re’s exploration of hypocrisy and morality further than any of his other works.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In MIP’s staging, three actors transform before our eyes into more than 10 characters, while Don Juan and his faithful sidekick Sganarelle remain the only fixed figures in a world that constantly shifts around them. The result is a fast-paced theatrical spectacle where identities blur, loyalties shift, and the unexpected lurks at every corner.<\/p>\n
The production will star Keshav Moodliar<\/a> as Don Juan and Alana Raquel Bowers<\/a> as Sganarelle, alongside Kaliswa Brewster<\/a>, President of the Board of Directors of Moli\u00e8re in the Park, Kalyne Coleman<\/a> and Daniel Pearce<\/a>. Moodliar, a Juilliard-trained actor, has appeared in Prince Faggot (Studio Seaview), Henry 6 (The Old Globe<\/a>), The Odyssey (American Repertory Theater), Queen (Long Wharf Theatre\/NAATCO), and Moli\u00e8re in the Park’s acclaimed production of Tartuffe. Bowers recently received multiple award nominations for her performance as \u201cMeek\u201d in Cold War Choir Practice, including an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play and a GALECA Dorian Theater Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Performance in an Off-Broadway Production. A Broadway veteran, her credits include Chicken & Biscuits, Bernarda’s Daughters, What to Send Up When It Goes Down, and Moli\u00e8re in the Park’s production of The Miser. Brewster is a first-generation Liberian-American actor, producer, educator, and arts advocate whose stage credits include productions with Theatre for a New Audience, The Acting Company<\/a>, and Classical Theatre of Harlem, while her television and film work includes Billions, Blue Bloods, God Friended Me, Daredevil, and HBO Films’ Paterno. Coleman, most recently seen on Broadway in Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, and Pearce, who recently appeared on Broadway in Othello opposite Denzel Washington<\/a> and Jake Gyllenhaal<\/a>, both return to Don Juan following appearances in Moli\u00e8re in the Park’s Winter Reading Series presentation of the play, bringing experience across both classical and contemporary performance.<\/p>\n SYNOPSIS: Don Juan has abandoned Elvira, whom he seduced into breaking her vows and marrying him. Over the course of a single adventure-filled day, he and his loyal sidekick, Sganarelle, encounter many of the people Don Juan has betrayed. As he seduces women, defies social conventions, mocks religion, and revels in provocation, his appetite for transgression seems impossible to satisfy. Yet the signs are unmistakable: the walls are closing in. Will he honestly repent? Or will he just pretend to, like so many around him, and continue down the same path to the bitter end?<\/p>\n \u201cOur decision to present Don Juan as our mainstage production reflects Moli\u00e8re in the Park’s ongoing commitment to making ambitious, thought-provoking, and highly entertaining theater accessible to all New Yorkers,\u201d said Lucie Tiberghien<\/a>. \u201cDon Juan feels especially urgent right now. Moli\u00e8re populates the play with characters who are at once farcical and tragic, heroic and deeply flawed, charming and repulsive, yet he never takes sides. Instead, he holds up a mirror and invites us to examine who we are and where we stand in the face of hypocrisy, accountability, and power. At the heart of Moli\u00e8re in the Park’s mission is a belief in the arts as a vehicle for empathy. By bringing this play into a public space, free of charge, we hope to create an opportunity for audiences across communities and generations to come together and engage with these questions collectively.\u201d<\/p>\n Original music and live cello performance will be provided by Johnathan Moore<\/a>, whose genre-blurring work spans classical, experimental, and contemporary music. Moore previously composed and performed the original score for Moli\u00e8re in the Park’s Drama Desk-nominated production of The Imaginary Invalid, creating a bold sonic landscape that became integral to the production’s emotional architecture.<\/p>\n TICKETS:\u00a0<\/p>\n FREE September 5 – 27 performances: https:\/\/www.moliereinthepark.org\/don-juan-2026<\/a><\/p>\n