Theatre Blog of Darryl Maximilian Robinson

To My Fellow Thespians In The Windy City: On March 25, 2024, The 50th Annual Chicago Non-Equity Jeff Awards Ceremony Will Be Presented At The Park West Theatre In the Lincoln Park neighborhood of The Windy City. As a pleased and proud 1997 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award Winner for Outstanding Actor In A Principal Role In A Play for his performance as Sam Semela in the 1997 Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago revival production of Athol Fugard's powerful anti-apartheid drama "Master Harold And The Boys" presented at the much-missed Heartland Cafe Studio Theatre of Rogers Park, and a happy previous, two-time, Non-Equity Jeff Awards Ceremony Presenter at the 1998 and 2003 Citation Ceremonies ( in the Actor In A Principal Role Category ) at The Park West Theatre, Your Humble Servant In The Theatre, Darryl Maximilian Robinson, strongly encourages all who work in, perform, support, teach or create Live Theatre in Chicago to attend this celebration.

Now Celebrating His 50th Anniversary As An American Stage Performer, Darryl Maximilian Robinson Notes The Upcoming 25th Anniversary of The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago Multiracial Revival Production of Tennessee Williams' "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" at Pulaski Park Studio Theatre in The Wicker Park Neighborhood of The Windy City! Notes On Presenting Tennessee Williams At A Chicago Park. "This troupe's always provocative color-blind casting aside, director Darryl Maximilian Robinson plays Williams' quintessential tale of family dysfunction and emotional impotence fairly straight." -- Nick Green, The Chicago Reader, Sept. 16, 1999. Believing That Great Scripts Can And Should Be Performed And Staged By All Races Of Actors, Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago Founder Darryl Maximilian Robinson Directed and Starred as Big Daddy In A September 1999 ESC Revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof With A Multiracial Cast