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Article: Stephen Lang puts his brilliant stamp on a tragic clown
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 11, 1989
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Theater is an ephemeral art. You can't rewind or fast-forward a
live performance to retrieve a great moment. Yet a brilliant stage
actor can leave indelible marks: The sound of his voice can remain
on tape in your mind, and the image of his body, possessed by his
character's personality, can continue to dance in your mind long
after you've left the theater.
It is just such a performance that Stephen Lang is giving in
"The Speed of Darkness," the new play by Steve Tesich that runs
through May 20 at the Goodman Theatre.
Lang, 37, plays Lou, a homeless Vietnam vet who calls himself an
MIA. "Yeah, I'm missing in America," he says. But from his first
startling appearance onstage late in ...