Theatre Blog of Darryl Maximilian Robinson

Incarnation is hard. Especially when a playwright or performer is evoking an American historic figure who is also an American literary genius. But good news is at hand at Chicago's Yippie Fest 2023, as a skilled and talented playwright and actor ( who is also a longtime resident of Chicago's historic Rogers Park neighborhood ) has the role of author, storyteller and legendary American humorist Mark Twain well in hand. Known over the years to Chicago theatre critics and audiences for such locally produced plays as "Duets," "Ithaca ( An Aftermath of The Odyssey of Homer )" and three works that make up "The Collage Project," playwright, producer, actor and distinguished educator Jeffery Wayne Helgeson "The Bard of Rogers Park" has spent a lifetime working on literary and live performing arts presentations that have delighted and impressed many playgoers. With his intriguing adaptation of "The Gospel According To Mark.....

RECALLING A LOS ANGELES STAGE BEST ACTOR HONOR!: In early 2016, some 7 years ago, one of the most wonderful experiences your humble servant in The Theatre, Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( a longtime Chicago stage veteran ), has had as a stage actor in Los Angeles was to play the debonair, but aging leading man Ernest in Tad Mosel's "Impromptu" with a marvelous cast that featured Casey Krubiner as Winnifred, Joey Trezise as Tony and Lucy Krubiner as Lora under the skilled direction of multiple Emmy Award-nominated television producer Jeff Zimmer at The Lincoln Stegman Theatre in North Hollywood, Ca The revival of Mosel's short, and great, one-act allegorical comedy of Life In The Theatre was one of a quartet of short works in the 2016 Emmanuel Lutheran Actors' Theatre Ensemble - Elate production of "Just 4 Fun." In July of 2016, Darryl Maximilian Robinson and his entire cast and director would be nominated for the 2015 / 2016 Elate S...

13 Years Ago This Month, In June Of 2010, With The Role Of The Old Shakespearean Actor Henry Albertson In Tom Jones' and Harvey Schmidt's "The Fantasticks", Your Humble Servant In The Theatre, Darryl Maximilian Maximilian Robinson, Made Both His Hollywood And Greater Los Angeles Area Stage Debut! Your humble servant in The Theatre, Darryl Maximilian Robinson, has appeared in no less than five revival productions of "The Fantasticks" during his 49-year-long stage career, beginning in 1977 in the role of Mortimer, "The Man Who Dies" in a Sheil Park Players staging at The Chicago Park District's Theatre-On-The-Lake ( in Lincoln Park ); the part of Henry Albertson in The 1978 Chicagoland Youth Theatrical Troupe staging at Northwest Federal Savings' Clyde B. Reed Auditorium ( in the Windy City's Portage Park neighborhood ); the leading role of The Narrator, El Gallo, in the 1981 Enchanted Hills Playhouse of Syracuse, Indiana rev...