Houston: front lines.(FRONT & CENTER)(Journey's End)(Brief article)
American Theatre, March, 2006 by Renner, Pamela
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YOU MIGHT THINK AN ACTOR OF LAURENCE OLIVIER'S CALIBER WOULD HAVE NO regrets about the roles he'd chosen to pass over. Actually, Olivier harbored a gnawing pang over his decision to give up the role of the doomed, hard-drinking Captain Stanhope of R.C. Sherriff's resonant 1928 World War I drama, Journey's End, a role which he originated for only two performances when he was just 21.
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According to Alley Theatre artistic director Gregory Boyd (who remounts his 2005 revival of the play through March 19 in Houston), "Olivier all through his life kept ...
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