Actress Taraji P. Henson attends 5th Annual Can We Talk? Multicultural Arts & Wellness Summit Brunch at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on October 12, 2025, in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
Taraji P. Henson has been featured on many billboards, but the latest one promotes her upcoming Broadway debut. Taking to Instagram, she shared a video that pans across a billboard for the play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, featuring photos of her and Cedric the Entertainer. The video also includes backstage and behind-the-scenes shots.
“I need somebody to pinch me!!! BROADWAY!!!!!! This moment is so surreal. Thank you God!” she captioned the post. “The entire cast is beyond gifted and amazing, and I cannot wait for you all to come see this show.”
Directed by Debbie Allen,August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone will play a 15-week engagement in the Barrymore Theatre beginning March 30. Taraji will take on the role of Bertha Holly, who runs a Pittsburgh boardinghouse with Cedric’s Seth Holly, providing shelter to Black travelers navigating uncertain paths in the aftermath of the Great Migration, according to Broadway.com.
Herald Loomis arrives with his young daughter, disrupting the stillness of their home, the play’s official website says. He searches for his lost wife and embarks on a journey of self-discovery after seven years of forced labor under Joe Turner, Broadway.com adds.
According to Cedric, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is “gonna be good!!!”
Guitar greats Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, who in 2024 announced the formation of SATCHVAI Band, have dropped a new single.
The two rockers have released the track “Dancing,” accompanied by a video directed by Satriani’s son, ZZ Satriani.
The clip opens with the duo’s manager, played by comedian and musician Brendon Small, pushing them to hire dancers for their upcoming tour, with the rest of the clip focused on auditions for the gig. It features a cameo at the end by their drummer, Kenny Aronoff.
“‘Dancing’ really captures the playful side of what Steve and I discovered on stage together last summer — that push-and-pull of melody and energy,” Satriani says. “The video gave us a chance to show that spirit in a completely different way. Watching ZZ bring this absurd casting concept to life — and having Brendon step into the madness — made it even more fun.”
Vai adds, “This band thrives on surprise — musically and visually. ‘Dancing’ is a perfect example of that.” He notes, “It’s melodic but relentless, and the video turns that energy into a kind of surreal comedy. It’s a glimpse into the personality of this band before we even hit the stage.”
SATCHVAI Band will launch the Surfing With The Hydra tour on April 1 in Seattle. It will mark their first tour of the U.S. They have dates confirmed through May 30 in Vienna, Virginia. A complete list of shows can be found at satchvaiband.com.
Hilary Duff, ‘luck… or something’ (Atlantic Records)
Comeback complete: Hilary Duff’s back in the top 10.
Hilary’s album luck… or something, her first in more than 10 years, has debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. It’s the fifth top-10 album of her career, following Metamorphosis and Most Wanted, which both hit #1; her self-titled 2004 album, which reached #2; Dignity, which hit #3; and 2015’s Breathe In. Breathe Out., which peaked at #5.
The album, featuring the single “Roommates,” debuted at #5 in the U.K., while it topped the chart in Australia.
Hilary’s chart accomplishment follows her mini-tour, called Small Rooms, Big Nerves, and several dates at the Voltaire club at The Venetian Las Vegas. Her global trek, the lucky me tour, gets underway in June, following another round of Voltaire shows in May.
Hilary has returned to the spotlight while navigating two unhappy events, the death of her Lizzie Maguire co-star Robert Carradine and her alleged involvement in the “toxic mom group” drama reported by Ashley Tisdale.
Megan Moroney has scored her first #1 album on the all-genre Billboard 200, as Cloud 9 debuts at the top of the chart.
The third studio offering from the “Beautiful Things” hitmaker sold 147,000 equivalent album units in its first week out, the biggest week for a country album by a woman in close to two years. It’s also the first #1 country album by a woman since Beyoncé topped the chart with Cowboy Carter in April 2024.
Cloud 9 is also #1 on the Top Album Sales tally and #2 on the Top Streaming Albums chart. The availability of five vinyl variants, three CD versions and four deluxe boxed sets contributed to the record’s sales.
Megan’s most recent studio album, Am I Okay?, made it to #9 in 2024, while her debut, Lucky, peaked at #38 in 2023.
Zendaya and Tom Holland pose at a photocall for ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ at The Old Sessions House on Dec. 5, 2021, in London. (Dave Benett/WireImage/Getty Images)
Zendaya and Tom Holland have tied the knot, according to stylist Law Roach.
The famed celebrity stylist behind many of Zendaya’s looks opened up on the Actor Awards red carpet on Sunday when asked about the couple’s seemingly impending marriage.
“The wedding has already happened. You missed it,” Roach said while speaking with Access Hollywood on the red carpet at the awards ceremony.
“Is that true?” asked the reporter, to which Roach responded, “It’s very true.”
ABC News has reached out to representatives for Zendaya and Holland.
The couple’s engagement was confirmed by People last year after Zendaya was photographed wearing a large diamond ring at the 2025 Golden Globes.
The celebrity couple met in 2016 while filming the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming, in which Holland starred as the superhero and Zendaya starred as “MJ,” or Michelle Jones-Watson.
Holland seemed to indicate a romance with Zendaya in 2021, wishing her a happy birthday in an Instagram post.
“My MJ, have the happiest of birthdays. Gimme a call when your [sic] up xxx,” wrote Holland in the post.
The photo showed Holland in full Spider-Man gear while Zendaya rested her chin on his shoulder and raised a camera to a mirror.
Metallica Life Burns Faster at Sphere artwork. (Courtesy of Live Nation)
Metallica is adding six more shows to the band’s upcoming Life Burns Faster residency at the high-tech Sphere venue in Las Vegas.
The exact dates for the added shows have yet to be announced — “Keep watching for dates and additional info,” Metallica writes in a Facebook post — but presales will begin for members of the Metallica Fifth Member fan club on Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT.
The initially announced Vegas run includes eight dates taking place Thursdays and Saturdays in October: Oct. 1 and 3, 15 and 17, 22 and 24, and 29 and 31. Every Thursday performance will have a completely different and unique set list from its corresponding Saturday show, following in the tradition of Metallica’s No Repeat Weekend format on their M72 world tour.
Presales to the previously announced shows are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. PT.
Michael B. Jordan accepts the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Award for “Sinners” onstage during the 32nd Annual Actor Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on March 01, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
Michael B. Jordan had a big weekend, with wins at the NAACP Image Awards and the Actor Awards, and he doesn’t want it to end just yet.
After winning outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for Sinners, which also took home outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture, he told Extra he’s honored “to be acknowledged by our peers and other actors that we admire.”
“To get that love and that affection and be in this room has us all kind of speechless,” he said of the Sinners cast, noting he’s generally feeling “gratitude.” “It’s a special movie, special project. We’ve been through so much together as a cast and as individuals and, man, I just don’t want it to stop. I don’t want it to end. I want to continue to do this over and over and over again. So yeah, it feels good.”
While accepting his award at the Actor Awards, Michael thanked his mother for the role she played in his success. He told Extra that he wouldn’t be close to where he is now without her love and support, which made her the perfect date.
“There’s been so much in my career my mom wasn’t able to be with me in these spaces, you know,” he said. “So for her to join me on this run, it couldn’t happen any other way.”
We’ll find out if Michael will add an Oscar to his trophy slate on March 15, when the Academy Awards air on ABC
Protesters clash with forces in Srinagar, Kashmir, on March 2, 2026, as authorities impose restrictions and curbs across Kashmir in response to demonstrations over the reported killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Muzamil Mattoo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — Trump administration officials told congressional staff in private briefings on Sunday that U.S. intelligence did not suggest Iran was preparing to launch a preemptive strike against the United States interests, four people familiar with the briefing told ABC News.
The officials said there was more of a general threat in the region from Iran’s missiles and proxy forces, sources told ABC News.
The intel shared with staff appears to contradict some of President Donald Trump and the White House’s previous statements about Iran and the reasoning for attacking the country.
The president said in his video address announcing the strikes, “our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.”
On a call with reporters this weekend, senior Trump administration officials said there were indicators that Iranians could launch a preemptive attack against U.S. forces and allies in the region.
While Trump was meeting with military leaders this weekend, he spoke with ABC News about the general threat from the Iranian regime.
“I think there was a threat. Had we not done Midnight Hammer, which was one of the greatest things [this] country has ever done, we would’ve been faced with a nuclear weapon within a month — we would have been faced with a very powerful nuclear weapon within a month,” Trump said this weekend.
“And then they were trying to build back –not there because that area was obliterated, but they were working on another site despite the negotiations — which at some points were going very well,” Trump continued. “But in the end we didn’t think they were going to get there [in terms of negotiations]. And they would’ve had in a fairly short period of time some very fairly big nuclear capacity and we were not going to put up with that.”
During a press briefing Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the attack was a response to Iranian aggression against the U.S. over a number of years.
“We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it. Their war on Americans has become our retribution against their Ayatollah and his death cult,” Hegseth said. “It took the 47th president, a fighter who always puts America first, to finally draw the line after 47 years of Iranian belligerence.”
The U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Israel on Saturday, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Trump told Fox News’s Bret Baier on Monday that 49 senior leaders were killed in the initial strikes.
Following the start of the U.S.-Israel operation, Iran launched retaliatory strikes with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and Gulf nations.
The conflict has resulted in at least four deaths of U.S. servicemembers so far, but military officials said Monday more deaths are expected.
“We expect to take additional losses,” Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during a briefing. “And, as always, we will work to minimize U.S. losses. But as the secretary said, this is major combat operations.”
Caine did not specify a timeline, but said, “This is not a single overnight operation. The military objective … will take some time to achieve.”
Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the U.S. military is “knocking the crap” out of Iran — but the “big wave” is yet to come.
“We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon,” Trump told Tapper Monday morning.
CNN was the first to report on what the Trump admin told congressional staff.
–ABC News’ John Parkinson and Fritz Farrow contributed to this report.
Luke Combs has accomplished an uncommon feat, as he now has two songs in the top 10 of the Billboard Country Airplay chart.
“Sleepless in a Hotel Room” is currently at #10, while “Days Like These” is at #8.
“Country radio and the fans never cease to amaze me,” Luke tellsBillboard. “We took ‘Days Like These’ to country radio and had no plans to do anything else until its run was over, but then the fans just really took hold of ‘Sleepless in a Hotel Room’ and gave us no choice but to send it to radio, too. But to have them both in the top 10 at the same time? Wow. I’m super grateful!”
Having two songs in the top 10 is extremely rare and typically only happens when an artist has a collaboration out, in addition to their solo single.
Morgan Wallen, however, managed to place both “Last Night” and “One Thing at a Time” in the top 10 in May 2023.
Both of Luke’s current hits are from his new album, The Way I Am, which drops March 20.
Lenny Kravitz on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’/(ABC/Randy Holmes)
Looks like Lenny Kravitz is working on a new album.
The rocker teased fans with news of a new record in a recent post on Instagram featuring a photo of him behind the drum kit and his dog sitting beside him. Kravitz captioned the photo, “Jojo vibing on the new tracks for the upcoming album.”
This isn’t the first time this year that Kravitz has hinted at new music. Back in January he posted a photo from inside the studio, captioning the shot, “Studio. New music. New love. Let Love Rule. Always!”
So far Kravitz hasn’t revealed any specific details about a new album. When it does get released it will be his first album of new material since 2024’s Blue Electric Light.
Kravitz has a trio of shows in Mexico that kick off March 8 in Guadalajara. He returns to the U.S. to play Atlantic City, New Jersey, on May 16, and then heads to Europe for a tour that begins June 12 in Italy.
