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Darryl Maximilian Robinson Revisits His 2019 Video Recordings of The Immortal Bard's St. Crispin's Day Speech

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SHARING VIDEOS OF THE IMMORTAL BARD'S ST. CRISPIN'S DAY SPEECH FROM "HENRY V"! Darryl Maximilian Robinson, a veteran stage actor and founder of both the Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and Los Angeles Archival Project, has performed and recorded the St. Crispin's Day Speech from William Shakespeare's Henry V on multiple occasions. In December 2019, he recorded two versions of the speech in Los Angeles's Lincoln Heights neighborhood. One was an outdoor "street theatre" version, shot on the steps of the Historic Lincoln Heights Jail. The other was an indoor version, recorded at an undisclosed location in the neighborhood. These recordings were Robinson's first public presentation of a full Shakespearean speech on the West Coast. Previously, he spent 15 years touring the country with his one-man show, "A Bit of the Bard," which included the St. Crispin's Day Speech. His video recordings of literary clas...
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Darryl Maximilian Robinson Homages "The Twilight Zone" With Belated 4th of July Message!

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THEATRE LOVERS AND SUPPORTERS, YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT IN THE THEATRE DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON SHARES A BELATED FOURTH OF JULY MESSAGE. Darryl Maximilian Robinson, a 51-year-long American stage performer whose local Los Angeles theatre award honors include a 2013 Kentwood Players' Marcom Masque Theatre Award nomination for Best Actor In A Major Supporting Role for his critically-praised performance as the historic Black educator and orator Booker T. Washington in a revival of the musical "Ragtime" at The Westchester Playhouse, a 2015 / 2016 Emmanuel Lutheran Actors Theatre Ensemble-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 drama of Life In The Theatre "Impromptu" at The Lincoln Stegman Theatre in North Hollywood, California, and, most recently, a 2024 Broadwayworld Los Angeles Award nomination for Best Supporting Performer In A Play for his p...
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Darryl Maximilian Robinson Celebrates 28th Anniversary of His 1997 Chicago Jeff Award Victory for Athol Fugard's MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS

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TODAY'S 1997 THEATRE AWARD HONOR FLASHBACK!: In January of 1997, Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago Founder Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( with the great assistance of ESC Co-Producer, Co-Designer and Dramaturg Jeffrey Wayne Helgeson ) produced, directed, designed and starred as Sam Semela ( opposite talented fellow actors Kevin Heckman as Hally and Gregory Christopher Armstrong as Willie ) in the ESC revival production of acclaimed South African playwright Athol Fugard's powerful anti-apartheid drama "Master Harold And The Boys" at The Heartland Cafe Studio Theatre in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. In June of 1997, The ESC revival of Fugard's work was nominated for and received a significant Chicago theatre award. "One never thought a that a production of Athol Fugard's "Master Harold...And The Boys" could exceed the production in which James Earl Jones starred as Sam Semela until the Excaliber Shakespeare Company c...
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Darryl Maximilian Robinson Celebrates 15th Anniversary of His Hollywood Stage Debut in THE FANTASTICKS at The Complex Theatre!

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RECALLING THE ROLE OF AN OLD SHAKESPEAREAN ACTOR IN A 50TH ANNIVERSARY REVIVAL PRODUCTION OF "THE FANTASTICKS"!: A Chicago-born and stage-trained veteran actor and play director, your humble servant in The Theatre, Darryl Maximilian Robinson, has won awards for his critically-praised stage roles including: The 1981 Fort-Wayne News-Sentinel Reviewer's Recognition Award as Outstanding Thespian of the Season for his performances in professional summer stock ( particularly as Fagin in Lionel Bart's classic musical "Oliver! ) at northern Indiana's Enchanted Hills Playhouse of Syracuse; a 1992 St. Louis / St. Charles, Missouri Area Harpooners of the Sea Unicorn Certificate of Honourary Membership Award for his staging and performance in the the title role of Excaliber Productions Ltd. in St. Louis mounting of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem!" at The Gateway City's Midtown Arts Center; and both a 1997 Chicago J...
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