Darryl Maximilian Robinson Presents His Glendale Centre Theatre Notes & Photos
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 9:00 AM
to Wednesday, August 21, 2024 - 10:00 AM
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2022 Making The World Happening Award Winner Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( who won both a 1997 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award for Outstanding Actor In A Principal Role In A Play and A 1997 Chicago Black Theatre Alliance Award nomination for Best Leading Actor In A Play for his critically-praised performance as Sam Semela in The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago revival of Athol Fugard's "Master Harold And The Boys" as well as a 1998 WKKC Radio Chicago Critic's Corner Fine Arts Award for Outstanding Director of A Play for his ESC revival of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" both mounted at The Heartland Cafe Studio Theatre of The Windy City's Rogers Park neighborhood ) Recalls A Trio Of Productions He Performed In At The Historic Glendale Centre Theatre in California!
It was really for one single season that veteran and award-winning stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson actually remembers.
In October of 2010, he began rehearsals for a trio of roles ( including, most notably, The Ghost of Christmas Present opposite the late and wonderful character actor and comedian Mario Di Gregorio as Ebenezer Scrooge ) in an traditional and annual musical rendition of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" which was presented from late November through late December.
In January of 2011, Darryl Maximilian Robinson began preparing for the dramatic role of black minister, The Reverend Sykes in highly talented Director Diedra Celeste Miranda's critically-praised and Stage Scene LA Award-winning mounting of Playwright Christopher Sergel's adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel of racism and injustice in the deep south, "To Kill A Mockingbird" which was staged from early February 2011 through March of 2011.
Darryl Maximilian Robinson is also pleased to share a video of moments of his performance as The Butler John Lawless in "The Happiest Millionaire."
Now celebrating his 50th Anniversary as an American Stage Performer, Darryl Maximilian Robinson has become noted as the very first black actor in American Theatre History to portray on stage a trio of classic dramatic roles including: Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons" ( in a 1984 revival presented by The University Players of The University of Missouri-St. Louis and directed by AEA Member John Grassilli at The Benton Hall Theater ); King Henry II in a 1992 multiracial cast revival of James Goldman's "The Lion In Winter ( directed by Mr. Robinson for his chamber theatre Excaliber Productions, Ltd in St. Louis and staged at The Wabash Triangle Cafe ); and Andrew Wyke ( opposite the talented actor Sean Nix as Milo Tindle ) in a 2000, 30th Anniversary, all-black cast revival of Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth" presented under Mr. Robinson's direction by his chamber theatre The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago at The Harrison Street Galleries Studio Theatre of Oak Park, Illinois. 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.
