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 on April 17, 2009. Woolfolk and Toyama were subsequently nominated for an Ovation Award, and the NAACP Theatre Awards alongside Guillory.

The play is named after a common nickname given to the Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, neighborhood from 1942 to 1945, when Japanese Americans were put into internment camps. During that time, many African Americans who migrated to California from the southern United States settled in Little Tokyo, which became known as Bronzeville.

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