Theatre Blog of Darryl Maximilian Robinson

CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS AND LOS ANGELES THEATRE VETERAN DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON EXTENDS A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FROM AN ARTIST ACKNOWLEDGED FOR SPENDING TIME ON BAKER STREET! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ONE AND ALL!: When an actor, a dancer, a musician, or a director, who has true talent and a urge, a need, a desire to try the greatest of challenges, the best time to attempt to do those things is towards the beginning of that artist's career. Why? Because when an artist is YOUNG, they believe they are invincible. They believe so passionately in their skills and their craft ( particularly if they have been well-trained ), that they can rally their contemporaries and fellow artists to try the most difficult of works of drama, of dance, of music! And EVEN WHEN THESE YOUNG ARTISTS FAIL, THERE ARE UNEXPECTED REWARDS. Including wisdom, experience and the knowledge that of any hint of an error or mistake should be rectified immediately, so that it can be corrected or removed long befor...

"There's Magic In The Web Of It." - from William Shakespeare's 'Othello' Long ago, when there was a sense of safety and understanding and courtesy between outdoor street performers who were gifted actors, singers, muscians, acrobats, combat-trained swordsmen and women, and jousters-on-horseback who would ride the streets of a local village to whip up and energize the common craftsmen and villagers to come watch a good battle...and The Paying Public, who could only imagine what life was like for someone who might suddenly be put on trial for WITCHCRAFT ...there was a place of special interest known as King Richard's Faire, an outdoor Renaissance Festival nestled between the two great American cities of Chicago and Milwaukee at a site location which was just a little west of a once charming, sleepy hamlet ( now a place of infamy ) known as Kenosha, Wisconsin. But, again, this is not a tale about the present. It is about something special that hap...