cobraskai:

@projectbway  event 01 : performance   —  [Denée Benton at Broadwaycon 2016 ]    

— And flying away
Like this…

whizzrbrowns:

musical theatre challenge: [3/10 performers] ↳ denée benton

When you’ve got incredibly xenophobic type of civil leaders, the media and film and theater have the power to transcend that nonsense and red tape. You can make a TV show normalizing the way a family looks. We should never be comfortable with erasing people from color to the story. There’s never been a time on this planet where people of color didn’t fully participate in civilization. I have a hard time of enjoying any type of story that doesn’t include a story of a person of color, because it’s not the reality. I’m really over the Golden Age of Hollywood, a beautiful white woman and handsome white man — I’m ready to see a trans-woman save the world from aliens!

dailygreatcomet:

deneebenton: #blackgirlmagic 😍

dailygreatcomet:

deneebenton: Happy @greatcometbwayopening @oaksmash !! #blackrussianstaking over the ‘Great White Way’ 👊🏾🙌🏾

soph-okonedo:

Denee Benton poses for photos in the Swarovski Store before the Swarovski Star Raising at Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree on November 16, 2016 in New York City

sailforalittle:

denée benton + fashion envy

birdlaces:

“Natasha has such access to big emotions, especially joy, and I recognized that in myself. To play a wide-eyed, confident, edgy ingénue who’s ready to go against what she’s been told to do in life—that’s the way I’ve existed. So as much fun as it is to be transformational, it’s cool to be like, ‘I get you, girl.‘ ”

jessiebuckley:

I know, I just wept.

accras:

Denee Benton at the 2017 Tony Awards

birdlaces:

“It’s telling a universal story of love and loss and war and regret,” Benton says, “and I think because of that you can put any person of any shade in it.”

The Next Generation of American Theater Is Here

anammv:

Denée Benton in “Beauty Game Changers” for Glamour US April 2017, photographed by Miguel Reveriego

kellymarietran:

I pretty much always cry on these lines. It’s one of those astonishing Tolstoyian lines, that manages to convey so simply and perplexingly so much of the humor, sadness, naïveté, and profound depth of one of his most beautiful and paradoxical characters.   —Dave Malloy

sailforalittle:

Denée Benton poses at the 2017 Tony Awards Meet The Nominees press junket portrait studio at Sofitel New York Hotel on May 3, 2017 in New York City.