Old Heart tells the story of African American GI Tom Johnson who joins forces with 24-year-old Sarah van Praag and the Dutch resistance to smuggle food and supplies from the liberated south across Nazi lines to starving cities in the northern Netherlands. Their brief love affair collapses at the war’s end, and sixty years later Johnson, about to be sent off to assisted living by his family, disappears on a flight to Amsterdam. While his children desperately try to locate him, Johnson is determined to track down Sarah.

This bittersweet love story premiered on Detroit's Redford Theatre stage in May 2022. It played again in May 2023 at the Overbrook Theater in Muskegon, Michigan A feature film production based on the play will be out in 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of European liberation and VJ Day. More details at https://www.rogerrapoport.com/old-heart as well as https://www.rogerrapoport.com/blacktheater Read the Black Masks article at