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ESC Actors Darryl Maximilian Robinson and Danny Belrose Share A Labor Day Guitar Practice and Theatre Don Maximiliano Improv at Belrose Place!

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ESC'S DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON ASSUMES THE ROLE OF THEATRE DON MAXIMILIANO TO EXPLAIN TO ESC'S DANNY BELROSE SOME THINGS REGARDING THE MYSTERIOUS DONNIE CUSAMANO! After enjoying a very satisfying Labor Day holiday meal with his long-time friend and professional colleague Danny Belrose at LA's Cypress Express restaurant, Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project Founder, Artistic Director and Producer Darryl Maximilian Robinson spent some time improvising his way into a new character creation: Theatre Don Maximiliano. And he comments on the elusive Donnie Cusamano! Recorded and edited on Monday September 7, 2026 as a bit of Labor Day entertainment ( which also included a fine, lively and extended Guitar Practice) by longtime ESC Creative Team Member, photographer, videographer and fellow Chicago stage veteran Danny Belrose ( a 2000 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award Winner for Best Ensemble of ...
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Director Darryl Maximilian Robinson Notes The ESC's 1998 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award-Winning Revival of O'Neill's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at The Heartland Cafe Studio Theatre

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ESC'S DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON REMEMBERS A 1998 CHICAGO JOSEPH JEFFERSON CITATION AWARD-WINNING REVIVAL OF EUGENE O'NEILL'S "LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT" AT CHICAGO"S INTIMATE HEARTLAND CAFE STUDIO THEATRE OF ROGERS PARK! "Danielle Gordon, playing the wife Mary, is a marvel. O'Neill wrote his mother into this play, and Gordon gives a sustained, quality performance that is unique and fulfilling as the lady who must accept her drug addiction because without it, life, as a woman following a "famous actor," has offered nothing real in pleasure." -- Lawrence Dunn, The Chicago Citizen, August 7, 1997. "Highly-talented Robinson, who also directs the drama, plays James Sr. as larger than life - a vast ego of a man, continually speaking lines from his successful onstage appearances, driven by an over-weening professional ambition, a penchant to control his family, and a miserly streak so broad it is destroying ...
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ESC's Darryl Maximilian Robinson Recalls His 2022 Salute To Sir Sidney Poitier On THE ACTOR'S CHOICE!

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ESC'S DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON ENCORES HIS 2022 4TH PROFESSIONAL GUEST ACTOR AND DIRECTOR APPEARANCE ON RON BREWINGTON'S INTERNET PERFORMING ARTS TELEVISION SHOW "THE ACTOR'S CHOICE"! The Actor's Choice: Darryl Maximilian Robinson Remembers Sir Sidney Poitier! Long-time Chicago and Los Angeles theatre-goers and play practitioners may know of veteran actor and stage director Darryl Maximilian Robinson's work from his more than 15 years as Founder, Artistic Director and Producer of the multiracial non-equity professional chamber theatre The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago ( 1987-2001), and his numerous Youtube channel video presentations of classic play speeches recorded throughout the Greater Los Angeles area at notable and historic sites as part of his theatre video events company The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project ( which has been documenting and recording his work on the west coast since 2016 ). 52-yea...
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