Chicago Theatre Veteran Darryl Maximilian Robinson Notes His Top 10 LA Stage Roles

 

Veteran And Award-Winning Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles Stage Actor And Play Director Darryl Maximilian Robinson Celebrates The 14th Anniversary of His Hollywood And Greater Los Angeles Area Stage Debut ( June 4, 2010 In The Hollywood Fringe Festival 50th Anniversary Revival Production of Tom Jones' And Harvey Schmidt's 'The Fantasticks' ) By Sharing A List Of His Personal Top 10 LA Theatre Roles!

 

 

 

Over the past several years, Chicago-born drama pro Darryl Maximilian Robinson has grown to love his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, Ca. He has taken The City of Angels into his Heart! But Mr. Robinson was born, raised and reared in The Theatre of The Windy City! 

 

 

His training and experience in drama came in working with small and large non-Equity Chicago professional theatre groups and educational arts organizations. In the year 1983 alone, he played Windy City Founder and Frontiersman Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable in playwright Alice Rubio's "Chicago: A Tale Of One City" in a touring production to Chicago Public Schools and private schools for the Urban Gateways Arts Organization as well as the African-American / Mexican-American cowboy, bank robber and confidence man Ben Hodges in noted Producer Val Gray Ward's and skilled Director Eddie D. Richardson's Kuumba Theatre Company musical of "Deadwood Dick: The Legend Of The West" staged at The Old Pakula Building in The Loop of Downtown Chicago.

 

 

He has never forgotten that training ( from the mid 1970s with The Chicagoland High School Theatrical Troupe through the early 1980s with The Chicago City Theatre at The Historic Fine Arts Building in The Loop ), nor the artistic discipline he had garnered from it ( even though from time-to-time it has prevented him from winning certain theatre roles he wanted on the west coast, that same mid-westerner, stubborn-headed attitude has also protected him from becoming involved in more than a few less-than-legitimate LA acting projects! And any performing artist in The Windy City that has visited Los Angeles to try and make a go of it in Hollywood knows what that means! ).

 

 

 

 

For a performing artist of any kind, the challenge of living and working at your craft in The City of Angels is not for "the-faint-of-heart."

 

 

 

 

Today, in 2024, several years later, after appearing in numerous plays, musicals and world premiere productions in The City of Angels, Darryl Maximilian Robinson reflects on his best Los Angeles stage parts with his personal list of Top 10 Los Angeles Stage Roles!:

 

 

1.) Major-General Stanley in the 2014 San Pedro Theatre Club of San Pedro, California 135th Anniversary Revival Production of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance.'

 

 

2.) The Narrator & The Mysterious Man in the 2014 Burbank Community Theatre staging of Stephen Sondheim's & James Lapine's 'Into The Woods' presented at The Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn in The Hollywood Hills.

 

 

3.) Henry Albertson in the 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival 50th Anniversary Revival Production of Tom Jones' and Harvey Schmidt's 'The Fantasticks' presented by The Tribe Productions at The Complex Theatre in Los Angeles.

 

 

4.) Ernest in Tad Mosel's 'Impromptu' as part of the 2016 Emmanuel Lutheran Actors' Theatre Ensemble - ELATE evening of one-acts entitled Just 4 Fun presented at The Lincoln Stegman Theatre in North Hollywood, Ca.

 

 

 

Darryl Maximilian Robinson won a 2015 / 2016 Los Angeles Elate Season Ticket Holder Best Actor Award nomination for his performance as the debonair, but aging leading man Ernest in Tad Mosel's classic one-act of Life In The Theatre "Impromptu."

 

 

 

 

5.) Booker T. Washington in the 2013 Kentwood Players' revival of Stephen Flaherty's, Lynn Ahrens' and Terrance McNally's musical 'Ragtime' presented at The Westchester Playhouse in Los Angeles. Darryl Maximilian Robinson received a 2013 Los Angeles Marcom Masque Theatre Award nomination for Best Actor In A Major Supporting Role.

 

 

 

 

 

6.) The Ghost of Christmas Present and Others in the 2010 Glendale Centre Theatre of Glendale, California annual musical production of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.) The Butler John Lawless in the 2011 Glendale Center Theatre 55th anniversary revival production of Kyle Critchton's 'The Happiest Millionaire.'

 

 

8.) The Reverend Sykes in the 2011 Glendale Centre Theatre staging of playwright Christopher Sergel's adaptation of Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'

 

 

 

9.) Don Carlos ( Performing English Language Understudy ) in the 2011 Bilingual Actors' Repertory Theatre Company ( Bartco ) world premiere production of Salvadoran playwright Waldo Chavez Velasco's 'Dreams Factory / Fabrica De Suenos' at The Stages Theatre Center in Hollywood, Ca.

 

 

 

 

 

10.) Stanley C. Dunklin, Jr. in the 2012 The Smiley Face And The Frown Entertainment Group world premiere production of Mark Mason's and Ellen Chambers' 'Rest For The Weary Spirit' in DTLA.

 

What's In Your Top 10?

 

 

Now celebrating his 50th Anniversary as an American Stage Performer, most recently, Darryl Maximilian Robinson was named a winner of a 2022 Making The World Happening Award for his numerous online theatre-related offerings during the early years of The Covid-19 pandemic.

 

 

 

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