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| THE LOS ANGELES 2015 / 2016 ELATE SEASON TICKET HOLDER AWARD NOMINATED CAST OF TAD MOSEL'S "IMPROMPTU"!: 2016 Elate Best Supporting Actress Award Nominee CASEY KRUBINER as WINNIFRED, 2016 Elate Best Actor Award Nominee DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON as ERNEST, 2016 Elate Best Supporting Actor Award Nominee JOEY TREZISE as TONY and 2016 Elate Best Supporting Actress Award Winner LUCY KRUBINER as LORA starred in THE EMMANUEL LUTHERAN ACTORS' THEATRE ENSEMBLE-ELATE revival of TAD MOSEL'S classic, one-act allegorical comedy-drama of Life In The Theatre "IMPROMPTU" as part of a quartet evening of one-acts entitled "JUST 4 FUN" at THE LINCOLN STEGMAN THEATRE in North Hollywood, CA. Photo courtesy of ELATE. |
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"Darryl Maximilian Robinson knows the ropes, both onstage and
Backstage. The veteran actor has been getting cast through our audition
listings since 1980. Of the number of projects he’s landed, the most
recent is “Impromptu.” This one-act play was one of four staged as part
of “Just 4 Fun,” a quartet of one-acts presented at the Lincoln Stegman
Theatre in Los Angeles. Robinson played Ernest, whom he describes as a “debonair but aging
leading man.” In “Impromptu,” four actors are called onstage and told
they must improvise a play before a live audience." -- Rachel Weiss, #I Got Cast: Darryl Maximilian Robinson, backstage.com / magazine article. May 3, 2016 8:00 AM.
"Let's give a warm NoHo "Welcome Back" to veteran actor DARRYL MAXIMILIAN
ROBINSON. Darryl is a Joseph Jefferson Citation Award-winning actor who
was last seen on the boards in the Greater Los Angeles Area as The
Narrator and The Mysterious Man in the December 2014 Burbank Community
Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s “INTO THE
WOODS” presented at The Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn in the Hollywood
Hills. Darryl returns to the stage this month portraying Ernest, a
debonair, but aging leading man in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tad
Mosel’s classic comedic-dramatic one-act play about Life in The
Theatre, “IMPROMPTU.” It is one of the entertaining and unique one-act
plays that make up The Emmanuel Lutheran Actors Theatre Enesemble’s
(ELATE) production of "Just 4 Fun." -- Lisa, nohoartsdistrict.com / spotlight item, Wednesday February 24, 2016 01:25.
About Acclaimed American Playwright Tad Mosel's Impromptu
Written during his early days ( actually, his college years as a drama
and literature scholar in 1948 ), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tad Mosel ( winner for the powerful family drama All The Way Home
and Emmy Award-nominated legend, who penned many strong television
scripts of the 1950s,1960s and 1970s ) perhaps had no idea that an
allegorical, comic-dramatic one-act called Impromptu would
have the story and staying power for decades to become one of the most
frequently performed short stage works in The American Theatre. The
story of Impromptu is relatively simple and direct: Four
actors sit on a darkened stage, awaiting the arrival of the stage
manager who has called them together. Lacking his authoritative presence
they are merely characters in search of a play to become part of, for
their own personalities seemed unformed and shallow next to the
full-blooded figures they are used to playing. They are also "types,"
and each of them has absorbed most of what he is from what he pretends
to be on the stage. As they wait, the stage lights come up - but still
no one appears to tell them what they are to do. They know only that
they are not to leave the stage until they have "acted out the play."
Suddenly becoming aware that an audience is present, the actors decide
to improvise, an idea that has them slightly flustered. Ernest, the
"leading man," excercises the perogative of star billing and assumes
control. He plunges ahead, assigning roles to himself and his colleagues
- Winnifred, who always play's "the leading lady's best friend;" Lora,
the struggling ingenue; and Tony, the juvenile lead. The "drama" which
unfolds is a mixture of truth, fantasy and well-rehearsed situations,
but out of it, in subtle progression, comes a deepening awareness of the
real people behind the theatrical facades. The play, conceived in the
"Pirandello mode," brings a fresh approach to a timeless theme - what
should be the proper ratio of truth vs. illusion in the balanced life?
In the Greater Los Angeles Area, a recent 2016 critically-praised
revival of Mosel's work by The Emmanuel Lutheran Actors' Theatre Ensemble - ELATE at The Lincoln Stegman Theatre of North Hollywood, Ca., was presented on a quartet bill of one-acts entitled Just 4 Fun, and that cast of Impromptu featured Darryl Maximilian Robinson as Ernest, Casey Krubiner as Winnifred, Joey Trezise as Tony and Lucy Krubiner as Lora. For their work in the show, each member of the cast earned a 2015 / 2016 Los Angeles Elate Season Ticket Holder Award Nomination
including Mr. Robinson as Best Actor, Ms. Casey Krubiner as Best
Suppporting Actress, Mr. Trezise as Best Supporting Actor and Ms. Lucy
Krubiner as Best Supporting Actress. Of this quartet of Impromptu ( as part of Just 4 Fun ), Ms. Lucy Krubiner would go on to win the prize for Best Supporting Actress. As far as this group of performers are concerned, Tad Mosel is a great American playwright!
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| A VALUED LA THEATRE HONOR!: Photo Copy of The 2015 / 2016 ELATE Season Ticket Holder Award Nomination for Best Actor Bestowed Upon DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON for his performance as the debonair, but aging leading man ERNEST in TAD MOSEL'S "IMPROMPTU" as part of "JUST 4 FUN." |
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| A Photo of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright and Emmy Award-nominated Television Script Writer TAD MOSEL. |
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| A PLEASED BEST ACTOR NOMINEE FOR THE ROLE OF ERNEST IN TAD MOSEL'S "IMPROMPTU"!: Seen here as he appeared in both the April 28, 2016 ( print version ) and May 3, 2016 ( internet edition ) of #I Got Cast: Darryl Maximilian Robinson in Backstage Magazine, DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON received his first Best Actor In A Play nomination in 19 years for his performance as ERNEST in TAD MOSEL'S "IMPROMPTU" with his 2015 / 2016 Elate Season Ticket Holder Award nomination honor. Photo by J. L. Watt. |
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| Veteran Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles Theatre Performer DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON proudly displays his 2015 / 2016 ELATE Season Ticket Holder Award Nomination for Best Actor for his performance as the debonair, but aging leading man ERNEST in TAD MOSEL'S "IMPROMPTU" as part of the 2016 EMMANUEL LUTHERAN ACTOR'S THEATRE ENSEMBLE - ELATE evening of one-acts entitled "JUST 4 FUN" which was presented at THE LINCOLN STEGMAN THEATRE in North Hollywood, CA. Photo by J. L. WATT. |
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| Prior to Appearing as ERNEST in ELATE's Staging of TAD MOSEL'S "IMPROMPTU" as part of the evening of one-acts entitled "JUST 4 FUN," DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON, a classically-trained actor and experienced musical theatre performer, played the marvelous dual roles of THE NARRATOR and THE MYSTERIOUS MAN in the 2014 BURBANK COMMUNITY THEATRE revival production of STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S and JAMES LAPINE'S "INTO THE WOODS" presented at the 1,200-seat HALL OF LIBERY at Los Angeles' FOREST LAWN CEMETERY in The Hollywood Hills. Photo by JASON JAVIER. |
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| Show Card for Tad Mosel's "Impromptu" and the rest of the one-acts billed as part of "Just 4 Fun" at The Lincoln Stegman Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. |
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| AN LA THEATRE AWARD-NOMINATED CAST OF TAD MOSEL'S "IMPROMPTU"!: Elate
Best Supporting Actor Award Nominee JOEY TREZISE as TONY, Elate Best
Supporting Actress Award Winner LUCY KRUBINER as LORA, Elate Best
Supporting Actress Award Nominee CASEY KRUBINER as WINNIFRED were the
marvelous fellow actors who helped Los Angeles-based stage veteran
DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON earn a 2015 / 2016 Elate Season Ticket Holder
Award Nomination as Best Actor for his performance as the debonair, but
aging leading man ERNEST in TAD MOSEL'S classic, allegorical one-act of
Life In The Theatre "IMPROMPTU" which was presented by THE EMMANUEL
LUTHERAN ACTORS' THEATRE ENSEMBLE - ELATE on a bill of one-acts entitled
"JUST 4 FUN" at The Lincoln Stegman Theatre in North Hollywood, CA.
Photo courtesy of ELATE. | |
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| Mr. Darryl Maximilian Robinson and His 2015 / 2016 Elate Season Ticket Holder Award Nomination for Best Actor for his performance as Ernest in Tad Mosel's "Impromptu" as part of "Just 4 Fun." Photo by J. L. WATT. |
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.
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