Free. | Jul 13, 2024 | 2:30PM - 5:00PM
Paul Carlson Memorial Park
For 14 years of stage work around The City of Angels, veteran and award-winning stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson has become noted for such local LA area theatre roles as Major-General Stanley in 'The Pirates of Penzance,' Henry Albertson in 'The Fantasticks,' District Attorney Flint in 'Night of January 16th' and Booker T. Washington in 'Ragtime.' But all of these roles were in shows which were presented in small and intimate venues. However, Mr. Robinson will be seen in a much larger venue soon.
At 2:30 pm on Saturday and Sunday Afternoons from July 13th through August 4th of 2024, veteran and award-winning stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson will appear as Chicago Tribune News Reporter Roy V. Bensinger in The 2024 Culver City Public Theatre outdoor stage production of Ben Hecht's and Charles MacArthur's classic comedy "The Front Page" at Dr. Paul Carlson Memorial Park in Culver City, and Admission Is Absolutely Free.
Currently celebrating 50 years as an American Stage Performer ( with involvement in over 250 live theatre and literary arts presentations around the country ) Darryl Maximilian Robinson, The Founder, Artistic Director and Producer of both the multiracial theatre groups The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project, was recently delighted and thrilled to be cast in the well-written, comedic supporting role of the extremely tidy, fussy, poetry-spewing, hypochondriac Chicago Tribune Feature News Reporter Roy V. Bensinger in the 2024 Culver City Public Theatre new revival production of the 1928 classic comedy by former real-life Chicago News Reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, "The Front Page," which in this new stage adaptation has been cleverly blended with the 1941 female revision screenplay of "His Girl Friday" by Charles Lederer.
Both the original late 1920s stage play and the early 1940s film script addressed the same issue: the epic comic battle of wits between the influential newspaper editor and publisher Walter Burns and his #1 newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson, who desperately wants out of the news reporting business in order to get married, settle down and have a normal life, and who the unscrupulous Burns desperately wants to keep in the newspaper business at all costs.
This romantic, screwball comedy all takes place in the raucous confines of The Press Room of A City Jail on the eve of the execution of a condemned man, Earl Williams, who may or not be altogether sane or altogether a radical. And when Williams shoots a renowned psychologist ( sent to examine him ) with the sheriff of the town's own gun and subsequently escapes, just days before a major city election, a media frenzy amongst the reporters breaks loose, and Burns uses every trick in the book to keep Hildy covering the story.
The Culver City Public Theatre new stage revival of "The Front Page," which has been effectively adapted and directed by local LA theatre veteran Trace Oakley, highlights many elements of both the original 1928 play and 1941 film, and features a full company of talented and versatile actors led by Rizzy Fuentes as Walter Burns, Tanya Laine as Hildy Johnson and Phil Rossi as Bruce Baldwin.
Darryl Maximilian Robinson in his supporting role as Chicago Tribune News Reporter Roy V. Bensinger ( a role played most memorably by the late, great 1930s and 1940s comic film character actor Edward Everett Horton in the 1931 Oscar-nominated Best Picture version of "The Front Page" ) is the sole Chicago-born and stage-trained actor in the gifted and diverse cast of The Culver City Public Theatre 2024 revival of "The Front Page."
For further info on seeing veteran stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson as News Reporter Roy V. Bensinger in the 2024 Culver City Public Theatre Free Theatre-In-The-Park revival of the classic comedy "The Front Page" visit:
2024 Publicity Photo of Rizzy Fuentes as Walter Burns and Darryl Maximilian Robinson as Roy V. Bensinger in The Culver City Public Theatre Revival Production of "The Front Page" by Kelsey Danzeisen.
2024 Culver City Public Theatre Costume Design for "The Front Page" by Sophia April Grose.
