Actress Claire Danes visits TODAY to talk about her new film “A Kid Like Jake,” in which she plays the mother of a boy with gender differences, as well as the second child she is expecting soon in real life. She says there's no conclusive word on whether the upcoming eighth season of her spy thriller series “Homeland” will be the last, but admits, “it feels like the end.”
Oscar winner Octavia Spencer visits TODAY to talk about her latest film, “A Kid Like Jake,” about a child with gender differences whose parents are trying to get him into a New York kindergarten. Spencer calls it “a way of opening dialogue,” and also talks about the disparity in pay faced by women of color in Hollywood.
Watch the newly released trailer for A Kid Like Jake starring Jim Parsons, Claire Danes, and Octavia Spencer. The film, directed by Silas Howard, will be released June 1, 2018.
On the trailblazing March 2nd episode of ABC Family's hit critically-acclaimed drama series THE FOSTERS, viewers witnessed a pair of 13-year-old best friends explore one of the most time-honored, sometimes awkward rituals of typical adolescence: declaring their attraction for one another with a kiss. The only big difference this time around? The two pals at the center of this blooming romance are both male: Jude (stirringly portrayed by Hayden Byerly) and Connor (played by Gavin Macintosh). Prior to the airing of the history-making episode, BroadwayWorld contributing editor Michael L. Quintos posed a few questions to the young actor about his role, his life on set, and the significance of his character's existence in today's modern television landscape.
Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3's 2012-2013 season continues with the opening of LUCK OF THE IRISH, a new play by Kirsten Greenidge, directed by Rebecca Taichman, and featuring Marsha Stephanie Blake, Eisa Davis, Dashiell Eaves, Frank Harts, Robert Hogan, Jenny O'Hara, Carra Patterson, Amanda Quaid and Victor Williams, at the Claire Tow Theater, LCT3's new home atop the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65th Street). BroadwayWorld brings you performance highlights below!
