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Lemon Anderson's "Toast" Looks at Attica Up Close and Personal

Edit Huffington Post 06 May 2015
The other cell block residents--who while away time playing cards at a makeshift card table, dreaming up elaborate toasts (hence the title) and completing work assignments (never seen)--include the older and self-contained Dolomite (Keith David), homosexual Annabelle Jones (Phillip James Brannon), tough guy Stackolee (John Earl Jenks), quieter Hobo Ben (Jonathan Peck) and Puerto Rican newcomer Jesse James (Armando Riesco) ... I ... I ... ....

Lemon Anderson's 'Toast' Looks at Attica Up Close and Personal

Edit Huffington Post 06 May 2015
The other cell block residents--who while away time playing cards at a makeshift card table, dreaming up elaborate toasts (hence the title) and completing work assignments (never seen)--include the older and self-contained Dolomite (Keith David), homosexual Annabelle Jones (Phillip James Brannon), tough guy Stackolee (John Earl Jenks), quieter Hobo Ben (Jonathan Peck) and Puerto Rican newcomer Jesse James (Armando Riesco) ... I ... I ... ....

Adam Driver to host Veterans Day reading of 'Our Lady of 121st Street'

Edit Entertainment Weekly 09 Nov 2014
Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF) will hold its 6th Annual Veterans Day event in honor of the United States Armed Forces on Monday night, Nov ... He added ... Sam Gold is directing the reading, which will be performed by Francois Battiste, Desmin Borges, Guy Boyd, Phillip James Brannon, Salvatore Inzerillo, Justin Long, Adrian Martinez, Armando Riesco, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Amy Ryan, Samira Wiley, and Tucker ... Tags.. Adam DriverJoanne Tucker. ....

MOVIE REVIEW: Adult World

Edit Independent online (SA) 08 Aug 2014
Emma Roberts, John Cusack, Evan Peters, Shannon Woodward, Cloris Leachman, Armando Riesco ... First-time director Scott Coffey uses all the tricks and stereotypes in the book to tell his story – a wintry landscape to mirror the desolation of Amy’s existential plight, a drag queen named Rubia (Riesco) to show that a diversity of friends ......

'Adult World' now on DVD: 11 fun facts about the movie filmed in Syracuse

Edit Syracuse 10 Jun 2014
 . Want to own a piece of Syracuse cinematic history? "Adult World" is now available on DVD ... Armando Riesco, Cloris Leachman and Shannon Woodward also star ... 1. There's a lot of Syracuse in the movie ... » Reviews ... 2 ... 14 ... 3 ... 4 ...  . 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... Armando Riesco, who's had roles in "National Treasure" and "Garden State," played Amy's friend who gives her a place to stay when she runs from home ... We saw so many people [but] Armando was so great ... ....

DVD review: Adult World

Edit The Examiner 07 Jun 2014
Staring John Cusack, Emma Roberts, Evan Peters and Armando Riesco. The film, Adult World, is your typical coming of age movie, as long as one does not mind a daughter having drag queen diva as a friend and working in a adult novelty boutique ... Poet writer Amy ... She stays with a drag queen diva name Rubia, played by Armando Riesco, whom she met earlier that day ... In one of the best lines in the film, Rat offer some advice for Amy ... Madrid ... ....

June 10, 2014 DVD: 'Adult World' with Emma Roberts and John Cusack

Edit The Examiner 03 Jun 2014
... it also stars Evan Peters, Armando Riesco, Shannon Woodward and Chris Riggi....

David Byrne's 'Here Lies Love' Leads Lortel Nominations

Edit The Hollywood Reporter 02 Apr 2014
1. 13. 0. 0. 0. Email Print Comments. Joan Marcus. "Here Lies Love". The ex-Talking Heads frontman's Imelda Marcos musical dominates this year's Off Broadway honors alongside "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," with eleven nods apiece ... David Rooney's Top 10 New York Theater Picks for 2013. Here Lies Love. Theater Review. Heathers. The Musical. Theater Review. The Night Alive ... Domesticated ... Armando Riesco, The Happiest Song Plays Last....

National Endowment for the Arts National Council on the Arts Meeting to Take Place Friday, March 28, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. (NEA - National Endowment for the Arts)

Edit noodls 21 Mar 2014
(Source. NEA - National Endowment for the Arts) ... EDT in room M-09 of The Nancy Hanks Center, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC ... Joining Hudes for the discussion will be the theater's artistic and associate artistic directors, Carole Rothman and Christopher Burney, respectively, as well as Armando Riesco, who has performed in each of the plays that make up the trilogy, including the current Second Stage production ...  ....

Hudes' 'Elliot Trilogy' winds up at home

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 18 Mar 2014
0 comments. Gallery. Hudes' 'Elliot Trilogy' winds up at home. Travel Deals. $949 & up -- Vallarta. 6-Nt. All-Incl. Riu Vacation from Philly.  . See all travel deals ». David Patrick Stearns, Inquirer Classical Music Critic. Posted ... A truth-telling homeless man makes welcome, if interruptive, entrances, and actor Armando Riesco is magnetic, having played Iraq war veteran Elliot Ruiz at the trilogy's center from the beginning ... 305 W ... ....

Tony Plana, Lauren Velez star in ‘The Happiest Song Plays Last’

Edit New York Daily News 07 Mar 2014
For now, Hudes is happy to savor every moment of the production starring Lauren Velez, Tony Plana and Armando Riesco, who gave life to Elliot from the very beginning. "I haven't started the process of letting go," Hudes admits. "Armando and I've been on this journey for a long time together, (and) I think it's going to be particularly resonant for the two of us ... "Happiest Song" is divided geographically ... ....

‘Adult World’: John Cusack turns snide into wry

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 07 Mar 2014
What’s not to like about a charming little movie about art, poetry and sex toys?. Well, the sex toy stuff is kind of silly and predictable, actually (“Do you have any more of those flame-retardant leather masks?”) and so is the warm, friendly little porn shop where it comes into play ... And so is the gruff transgender prostitute with the heart of gold (Armando Riesco) who hangs out there ... the desire to be famous for it ... ....

‘The Happiest Song Plays Last’: Theater review 

Edit New York Daily News 04 Mar 2014
Three isn’t always a charm. The third play in Quiara Alegria Hudes’ trilogy, “The Happiest Song Plays Last,” is a sincere but shapeless story of Puerto Rican-American cousins looking for love and a place in the world ... In 2011, Elliot (Armando Riesco) is trying to get on by working on a movie in Jordan about the war....
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