Bronzeville (play)

Bronzeville is a play written by Tim Toyama and Aaron Woolfolk. Developed and produced by the Robey Theatre Company, the original production and two subsequent revivals were directed by Ben Guillory. The play debuted at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in Los Angeles, California, on April 17, 2009. Toyama and Woolfolk were subsequently nominated for an Ovation Award, and along with Guillory, they were nominated for the NAACP Theater Awards.

The play is named after the period from 1942 through 1945 when the Los Angeles neighborhood of Little Tokyo was referred to as "Bronzeville". Following the internment of Japanese Americans, many African Americans migrated to California from the southern United States and settled in Little Tokyo, which then became known as Bronzeville.